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    Protozoa (sg.: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic...
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  • Protozoa Pictures is an American production company founded in 1997 by American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, headquartered in New York City. It is mainly...
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    called algae, or purely heterotrophic, which are traditionally called protozoa, but there is a wide range of mixotrophic protists where phagotrophy and...
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    Cavalier-Smith, although it primarily differs in that Protista is replaced by Protozoa and Chromista. Thomas Cavalier-Smith supported the consensus at that time...
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    archaea. Many eukaryotes are multicellular, but some are unicellular such as protozoa, unicellular algae, and unicellular fungi. Unicellular organisms are thought...
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  • Ithania is a genus of parasitic alveolates of the phylum Apicomplexa. This genus was described in 1947 by Ludwig. This genus has only a single recognised...
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    OCLC 558125. Kumazawa, H. (2002). "Notes on the taxonomy of Stentor Oken (Protozoa, Ciliophora) and a description of a new species". J. Plankton Res. 24 (1):...
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    March 2019. From p. 1008: "Erste Klasse. Urthiere. Protozoa." (First class. Primordial animals. Protozoa.) [Note: each column of each page of this journal...
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    Bradbury P (eds.). An Illustrated guide to the Protozoa : organisms traditionally referred to as protozoa, or newly discovered groups. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.)...
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    An opportunistic infection is an infection caused by pathogens (bacteria, fungi, parasites or viruses) that take advantage of an opportunity not normally...
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  • Little Death (film) (category Protozoa Pictures films)
    and Sante Bentivoglio. Darren Aronofsky serves as a producer under his Protozoa Pictures banner. It had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival...
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    causing these conditions are protozoa (causing protozoan infection), helminths (helminthiasis), and ectoparasites. Protozoa and helminths are usually endoparasites...
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    (ingestion) and internal processing of liquids or solid food particles.Protozoa, such as amoebas, and most of the free living animals, such as humans,...
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  • Octosporella is a genus in the phylum Apicomplexa. This genus has been poorly studied and little is known about it. Species in this genus infect fish,...
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    oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like organisms, phytoplasmas, protozoa, nematodes and parasitic plants. Not included are ectoparasites like insects...
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  • "The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52...
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    parasitic diseases caused by organisms formerly classified in the kingdom Protozoa. These organisms are now classified in the supergroups Excavata, Amoebozoa...
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  • proposed that the animal phylum Protozoa be elevated to the status of kingdom. In 1860, John Hogg (1800–1869) proposed that protozoa and protophyta be grouped...
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  • animal) is the activated, feeding stage in the life cycle of certain protozoa such as malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum and those of the Giardia...
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    causing diseases that characteristically are waterborne prominently include protozoa and bacteria, many of which are intestinal parasites, or invade the tissues...
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    Sandfly (section Protozoa)
    Sandfly or sand fly is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran (fly) encountered in sandy areas. In the United...
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  • microorganisms can be classified as bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, algae and protozoa. Each of these groups has characteristics that define them and their functions...
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  • Diaspora is a genus in the phylum Apicomplexa, first described by Leger in 1898. There is one species in this genus - Diaspora hydatidea. This species...
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    Protista or Protozoa. In some older systems of classification, such as the influential taxonomic works of Alfred Kahl, ciliated protozoa are placed within...
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    Proposals have been made to divide it among several new kingdoms, such as Protozoa and Chromista in the Cavalier-Smith system. Protist taxonomy has long been...
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  • Lankesterella is a genus in the phylum Apicomplexa. Species in this genus infect amphibians, reptiles and birds. The type species is Lankesterella minima...
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  • Rastrimonas is a monotypic genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. It contains the single species Rastrimonas subtilis. It was described...
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    (707), fungi, including lichen-forming species (5844), plants (9107) and protozoa (1440). The native bee hummingbird or zunzuncito is the world's smallest...
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    Plantae: 28,724 (± 7,721) Fungi: 10,468 (± 182) Chromista: 11,114 (± 1,268) Protozoa: 3,109 (± 1,206) Bacteria: 3,433 (± 115) Archaea: 140 (± 0) Viruses: 851...
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    an important part in the biology of coral reefs. Others predate other protozoa, and a few forms are parasitic. Many dinoflagellates are mixotrophic and...
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