Sentences with phrase «as microsporidia»

Nematocida parisii, a newly discovered species of the protozoan parasites known as microsporidia, lives in the intestines of C. elegans, a small roundworm commonly used for research.

When they discovered a new parasite in water fleas a couple of years ago, they classified this undescribed species as a microsporidium, mostly because it possessed the unique harpoon - like infection apparatus (the polar - tube), one of the hallmarks of microsporidia.

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... The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, human papilloma virus, isospora belli, microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.

After recognizing microsporidia as members of the fungal kingdom with all its elaborate metabolic tricks and lifestyles, biologists could see that microsporidia had been more complex at one time, but eventually lost fancy traits.

The researchers detected some left - behind nuclear genes in supposed ancients, such as Giardia, Trichomonas and some microsporidia.

This finding is significant because Nuclearia lacks a cell wall and has phagotrophic nutrition in which the food source (such as a bacterium or algal cell) is engulfed wholly, unlike fungi and microsporidia which utilize absorptive nutrition.