The dinoflagellates (from Ancient Greek δῖνος (dînos) 'whirling' and Latin flagellum 'whip, scourge') are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes...
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Alexandrium is a genus of dinoflagellates. It contains some of the dinoflagellate species most harmful to humans, because it produces toxic harmful algal...
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Bioluminescence (redirect from Dinoflagellate light production)
The most frequently encountered bioluminescent organisms may be the dinoflagellates in the surface layers of the sea, which are responsible for the sparkling...
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Luciferase (section Dinoflagellate)
examples in other kingdoms including bioluminescent bacteria, and dinoflagellates. The luciferases of fireflies – of which there are over 2000 species...
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organelle containing extrusive filaments found in two families of athecate dinoflagellates (a group of unicellular eukaryotes), the Warnowiaceae and Polykrikaceae...
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Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts or calcareous dinocysts are dinoflagellate cysts produced by a group of peridinoid dinoflagellates, called calcareous...
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Dinoflagellate luciferase (EC 1.13.12.18, Gonyaulax luciferase) is a specific luciferase, an enzyme with systematic name dinoflagellate-luciferin:oxygen...
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named for Dr. Karen Steidinger for her exceptional contributions to dinoflagellate research. She has spent many decades researching Karenia brevis. 12...
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Dinoflagellate Blooms is the fourth studio album that J. G. Thirlwell has issued under the pseudonym Manorexia. It was released on June 11, 2011 by Ectopic...
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Predatory dinoflagellates are predatory heterotrophic or mixotrophic alveolates that derive some or most of their nutrients from digesting other organisms...
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Dinoflagellates are eukaryotic plankton, existing in marine and freshwater environments. Previously, dinoflagellates had been grouped into two categories...
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Dinocyst (redirect from Dinoflagellate cyst)
Dinocysts or dinoflagellate cysts are typically 15 to 100 μm in diameter and produced by dinoflagellates as a dormant, zygotic stage of their lifecycle...
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Dinoflagellate/viral nucleoproteins (DVNPs) are a family of positively-charged, DNA-binding nucleoproteins found exclusively in dinoflagellates and Nucleocytoviricota...
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remains from the Eocene of Barbados can be interpreted as dinoflagellate thecae of the dinoflagellate Peridinites. These have previously been interpreted as...
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Scintillon (section Dinoflagellate light production)
produce light. Among bioluminescent organisms, only dinoflagellates have scintillons. Marine dinoflagellates at night can emit blue light by bioluminescence...
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Bacterial DNA binding protein (redirect from Dinoflagellate histone-like proteins)
group of eukaryotes known as dinoflagellates. These dinoflagellate histone-like proteins replace histone in some dinoflagellates and package DNA into a liquid-crystalline...
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huxleyi bloom during the late spring and summer months. Dinoflagellates Annual dinoflagellate distribution is defined by an extended bloom period in subsurface...
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typically contributing to a flexible pellicle (thin skin). In armored dinoflagellates they may contain stiff plates. Alveolates have mitochondria with tubular...
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Tripos is a genus of marine dinoflagellates in the family Ceratiaceae. It was formerly part of Ceratium, then separated out as Neoceratium, a name subsequently...
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Allen Place (section Dinoflagellate toxicity)
full-length cDNA library for a dinoflagellate species, and his team obtained the complete transcriptome of several dinoflagellates, providing sequence information...
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(e.g. Shewanella hanedai and Shewanella woodyi) Protists Certain Dinoflagellates (e.g. Noctiluca scintillans, Pyrodinium bahamense, Pyrocystis fusiformis...
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unicellular species of green algae, many golden algae, euglenids, dinoflagellates, and other algae have become heterotrophs (also called colorless or...
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Ceratium (category Dinoflagellate genera)
(about 7) of freshwater dinoflagellate species. Previously the genus contained also a large number of marine dinoflagellate species. However, these marine...
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the island of Vieques famous for its bioluminescence produced by the dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense, which glows blue when agitated. This species of...
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of dinoflagellate-bearing acoels which are epizoic on living corals. This species is unique in that it transmits its endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae)...
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Dinodnavirus is a genus of viruses that infect dinoflagellates. This genus belongs to the clade of nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses. The only species...
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For example, Gymnodinium nagasakiense can cause harmful red tides, dinoflagellates Gonyaulax polygramma can cause oxygen depletion and result in large...
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Zooplankton (section Dinoflagellates)
zooplankton, including zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates and marine microanimals. Macroscopic zooplankton include pelagic cnidarians...
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Luciferin (section Dinoflagellate)
blue light emission. Dinoflagellate luciferin is a chlorophyll derivative (i. e. a tetrapyrrole) and is found in some dinoflagellates, which are often responsible...
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Microfossil (section Dinoflagellate cysts)
complexity. Some dinoflagellates produce resting stages, called dinoflagellate cysts or dinocysts, as part of their lifecycles. Dinoflagellates are mainly represented...
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