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    An amoeba (/əˈmiːbə/; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; pl.: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae) /əˈmiːbi/), often called an amoeboid...
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    Amoeba proteus is a large species of amoeba closely related to another genus of giant amoebae, Chaos. As such, the species is sometimes given the alternative...
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  • Look up amoeba, amœba, or ameba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amoeba (sometimes amœba or ameba, plural amoebae, amoebas or amebas) is a type of...
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    circular, siliceous plates produced by the amoeba Testate amoebae are a polyphyletic assemblage. The main testate amoebae groups are the lobose Tubulinea, which...
    16 KB (1,236 words) - 09:34, 12 August 2023
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    diagnostic character for free living amoebae". Protistologica. 17: 243–248. Media related to Amoeba at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Amoeba at Wikispecies...
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    Chaos (genus) (redirect from Chaos (amoeba))
    collapsing all the "common" large, freshwater amoebae into one species, which he proposed to call Amoeba proteus. A dozen species, including several that...
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    Amoebiasis (redirect from Amoeba infection)
    amoebic dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by a parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. Amoebiasis can be present with no, mild, or severe...
    33 KB (3,432 words) - 02:52, 15 May 2024
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    Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is technically classified...
    32 KB (3,388 words) - 21:46, 23 May 2024
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    amoeba secretes the signal, cAMP, out of the cell, attracting other amoebae to migrate toward the source. Every amoeba moves toward a central amoeba,...
    37 KB (4,796 words) - 13:42, 15 April 2024
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    Arcellinid testate amoebae or Arcellinida, Arcellacean or lobose testate amoebae are single-celled protists partially enclosed in a simple test (shell)...
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    major grouping of Amoebozoa, including most of the more familiar amoebae genera like Amoeba, Arcella, Difflugia and Hartmannella. During locomotion most Tubulinea...
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    of slime molds or social amoebae. When food (normally bacteria) is readily available dictyostelids behave as individual amoebae, which feed and divide normally...
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    The Amoebidae are a family of Amoebozoa, including naked amoebae that produce multiple pseudopodia of indeterminate length. These are roughly cylindrical...
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    species of amoebae. Controversial reports describe an alternation of two trophozoite stages within its life cycle: the "schizont", an amoeba surrounded...
    9 KB (965 words) - 07:49, 19 May 2024
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    Breviatea (redirect from Breviate amoebae)
    Breviatea, commonly known as breviate amoebae, are a group of free-living, amitochondriate protists with uncertain phylogenetic position. They are biflagellate...
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  • "Polychaos dubium". Amoebae on the Web. Archived from the original on 2003-05-22. Retrieved 2009-10-01. Leidy, Joseph (1878). "Amoeba proteus". The American...
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  • the sorocyst develops into the monopodial amoeba. Microcysts are also able to germinate into amoeba. The amoeba have the potential to encyst on the sorocarp...
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    term protostelid or protosteloid amoeba is sometimes used. Protosteloid amoebae, also called protostelids, are amoebae that are capable of making simple...
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    dysentery in St. Petersburg, Russia. He referred to the amoeba he observed microscopically as Amoeba coli; however, it is not clear whether he was using this...
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  • in the resistant cyst stage and dispersed in the newly excysted amoebae when the amoeba is able to establish itself in a new host. "Chromatoid Body - an...
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