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    Amoeba is a genus of single-celled amoeboids in the family Amoebidae. The type species of the genus is Amoeba proteus, a common freshwater organism, widely...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Chaos is a genus of single-celled amoeboid organisms in the family Amoebidae. The largest and most-known species, the so-called "giant amoeba" (Chaos carolinensis)...
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    Amoebozoa of the free living genus Acanthamoeba and the social amoeba genus Dictyostelium are single celled eukaryotic organisms that feed on bacteria...
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  • gene encodes a protein that is split up into multiple parts. A testate amoeba genus was named Alabasta, partly in reference to the One Piece Kingdom of Alabasta...
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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 classified as...
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  • Amoeba, and so designated it the type species of the genus Polychaos. Unlike species of Amoeba, P. dubium lacks longitudinal ridges on its pseudopods...
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    studying this amoeba. For a time during the first half of the 20th century the entire genus Entamoeba was transferred to Endamoeba, a genus of amoebas infecting...
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    Alphapithovirus, is a genus of giant virus known from two species, Alphapithovirus sibericum, which infects amoebas, and Alphapithovirus massiliense....
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  • Bonkowski, Michael (2017-02-01). "Shedding Light on the Polyphyletic Thecate Amoeba Genus Plagiophrys: Transition of Some of its Species to Rhizaspis (Tectofilosida...
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    movement" inside the large intestine. Usually, the amoeba is immobile, and keeps its round shape. This amoeba, in its trophozoite stage, is only visible in...
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    provides the amoeba with shelter from predators and environmental conditions. The test of some species is produced entirely by the amoeba and may be organic...
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  • species, the sorocarpic (aggregatively fruiting) amoeba Copromyxa protea and the non-sorocarpic amoeba Copromyxa (=Hartmannella) cantabrigiensis. The named...
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    first discovered and documented an amoeba he called Amoeba gruberi that could transform into a flagellate. The genus Naegleria was established by Alexis...
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  • eukaryotes (commonly known as Giant Viruses). It was isolated from amoeba. The genus contains the following species: Marseillevirus marseillevirus Senegalvirus...
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    Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold...
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  • superhero the Creeper Amoeba proteus, the most famous species of amoebae Proteus (amphibian), a small cave-dwelling amphibian genus, also known as the olm...
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    different genus because they're characterized by a retort-shaped shell. Bobrov, Anatoly; Mazei, Yuri (2017). "A review of testate amoeba genus Cryptodifflugia...
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    PMID 23020233. Mazei, Yuri; Warren, Allen (2012). "A survey of the testate amoeba genus Difflugia Leclerc, 1815 based on the specimens in the E. Penard and C...
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    Bundeswehr Medical Service in Koblenz, Germany, found one in 2008, in an amoeba living in the contact lens of a woman with keratitis. Its development within...
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  • Pentagonia (disambiguation) (category Genus disambiguation pages)
    Pentagonia may also refer to: Pentagonia (amoeba), a genus of amoeba in the order Arcellinida Pentagonia (brachiopod), a genus of brachiopods in the family Meristellidae...
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    Others detect this signal, and respond in two ways: The amoeba moves towards the signal. The amoeba secretes more cAMP to boost the signal. The effect of...
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    life cycle: the "schizont", an amoeba surrounded by a test covered in flexible spicules, and the "gamont", an amoeba surrounded by a more flexible and...
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    Kraken is a genus of amoebae within the Cercozoa, containing the sole species Kraken carinae. These amoebae are characterized by a small round cell body...
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    Susan; De Jonckheere, Johan F. (Feb. 25, 1999). "A reevaluation of the amoeba genus Vahlkampfia based on SSUrDNA sequences". European Journal of Protistology...
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    Yersinia (redirect from Yersinia (genus))
    intracellular parasites; studies and discussions of the possibility of amoeba-vectored (through the cyst form of the protozoan) Yersinia propagation and...
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    Infective HIV remains viable within the amoeba, although there has been no proof of human reinfection from amoeba carrying this virus. A burst of research...
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    that feed by heterotrophy. Traditional textbook examples of protozoa are Amoeba, Paramecium, Euglena and Trypanosoma. The word "protozoa" (singular protozoon)...
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