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gregarine

NOUN
  1. vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates

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  • In Jodi's case, she was looking at some of the effects of host intestinal environment on gregarine metabolism and survival.
  • Ciliates are alveolate protozoa that evolved unusually large cell sizes entirely differently from gregarines, with radically novel consequences for their genomes.
  • (Lecudinidae, Eugregarinida), a new gregarine parasitizing the larger grain borer, Prostephanus truncatus Horn (1878) (Bostrichidae, Coleoptera). Chapter 10
  • Figure 1 shows the prevalence of these gregarines in adult damselflies during the summer and early fall of this year.
  • The students established beetle populations with and without gregarine infection and then monitored the population over time.
  • The cytoplasm of the gregarines was always irregular, dense, and occasionally presenting a dark stoch area.
  • This mode of infection probably explains why heavy infections in this gregarine are rare, even in crowded cultures of roaches?
  • The gregarine parasite, Locklin said, is single cell and shows up in the intestinal tract of the dragonfly. Temple Daily Telegram News Feed
  • To measure parasite burden of winners and losers, we assessed the number of eugregarine trophozoites in a male's mid-gut by removing the entire gut carefully and making light microscope thin-section preparations.
  • Like the gregarines, however, the life cycle is primarily haploid, with diploidy only occurring before meiosis.
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