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Alveolata

Categorical breakdown of terms falling inder the category of Alveolata. Sub categories will become more specific in nature to the terms listed for Alveolata.

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Alveolata - A group of three related eukaryotic phyla whose members possess an alveolar membrane system, consist...

Apicomplexa - A phylum of unicellular parasitic EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of complex apical organel...

Babesia - A genus of tick-borne protozoan parasites that infests the red blood cells of mammals, including hum...

Babesia bovis - A species of protozoa that is a cause of bovine babesiosis. Ticks of the genera Boophilus, Rhipiceph...

Babesia microti - A species of protozoa infecting humans via the intermediate tick vector IXODES scapularis. The other...

Balantidium - A genus of protozoa parasitic in the digestive tract of vertebrate or invertebrate hosts. Asexual mu...

Ciliophora - A phylum of EUKARYOTES characterized by the presence of cilia at some time during the life cycle. It...

Coccidia - A subclass of protozoans commonly parasitic in the epithelial cells of the intestinal tract but also...

Cryptosporidiidae - A family of parasitic organisms in the order EIMERIIDA. CRYPTOSPORIDIUM is the most important genus....

Cryptosporidium - A genus of coccidian parasites of the family CRYPTOSPORIDIIDAE, found in the intestinal epithelium o...

Cryptosporidium parvum - A species of parasitic protozoa that infects humans and most domestic mammals. Its oocysts measure f...

Cyclospora - A genus of coccidian parasites in the family EIMERIIDAE. Cyclospora cayetanensis is pathogenic in hu...

Dinoflagellida - Flagellate EUKARYOTES, found mainly in the oceans. They are characterized by the presence of transve...

Eimeria - A genus of protozoan parasites of the subclass COCCIDIA. Various species are parasitic in the epithe...

Eimeria tenella - A species of coccidian protozoa that mainly infects domestic poultry....

Eimeriida - An order of parasitic organisms in the class COCCIDIA. Families include CRYPTOSPORIDIIDAE; EIMERIIDA...

Eimeriidae - A large family of parasites in the order EIMERIIDA. They cause COCCIDIOSIS in a number of vertebrate...

Eucoccidiida - An order of parasitic protozoa found in blood cells and epithelial cells of vertebrates and inverteb...

Euplotes - A genus of ciliate protozoa having a dorsoventrally flattened body with widely spaced rows of short ...

Haemosporida - An order of heteroxenous protozoa in which the macrogamete and microgamont develop independently. A ...

Hymenostomatida - An order of ciliate protozoa. Characteristics include a ventral oral area and a well-defined buccal ...

Hypotrichida - An order of ciliate protozoa. Characteristics include a dorsoventrally flattened, highly mobile body...

Isospora - A genus of protozoan parasites found in the intestines of birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals, ...

Kinetofragminophorea - A class of ciliate protozoa. Prominent cytopharyngeal apparatus is characteristic of this class as i...

Neospora - A genus of protozoan parasites of the subclass COCCIDIA. Its species are parasitic in dogs, cattle, ...

Oligohymenophorea - A class of ciliate protozoa. Characteristics include the presence of a well developed oral apparatus...

Oxytricha - A genus of ciliate protozoa having a unique cursorial type of locomotion....

Paramecium - A genus of ciliate protozoa that is often large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Paramecia are co...

Paramecium aurelia - A species of ciliated PARAMECIUM possessing two micronuclei....

Paramecium caudatum - The most widely distributed species of PARAMECIUM. It is elongated and possesses a bluntly pointed p...

Paramecium tetraurelia - A species of ciliate protozoa. It is used in biomedical research....

Peniculina - A suborder of protozoa characterized by peniculi, which are often situated deep in the buccal cavity...

Pfiesteria piscicida - A dinoflagellate with a life cycle that includes numerous flagellated, amoeboid, and encysted stages...

Piroplasmia - A subclass of heteroxenous parasitic protozoa usually transmitted by ticks. Its organisms are rod-sh...

Piroplasmida - An order of protozoa comprising heteroxenous tick-borne blood parasites. Representative genera inclu...

Plasmodium - A genus of protozoa that comprise the malaria parasites of mammals. Four species infect humans (alth...

Plasmodium berghei - A protozoan parasite of rodents transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles dureni....

Plasmodium chabaudi - A protozoan parasite of rodents transmitted by the mosquito Anopheles stephensi....

Plasmodium cynomolgi - A protozoan parasite that occurs naturally in the macaque. It is similar to PLASMODIUM VIVAX and pro...

Plasmodium falciparum - A species of protozoa that is the causal agent of falciparum malaria (MALARIA, FALCIPARUM). It is mo...

Plasmodium gallinaceum - A protozoan parasite that causes avian malaria (MALARIA, AVIAN), primarily in chickens, and is trans...

Plasmodium knowlesi - A protozoan parasite from Southeast Asia that causes monkey malaria. It is naturally acquired by man...

Plasmodium malariae - A protozoan parasite that occurs primarily in subtropical and temperate areas. It is the causal agen...

Plasmodium ovale - A species of protozoan parasite causing MALARIA. It is the rarest of the four species of PLASMODIUM ...

Plasmodium vivax - A protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria (MALARIA, VIVAX). This species is found almost everyw...

Plasmodium yoelii - A species of PLASMODIUM causing malaria in rodents....

Polymenophorea - A class of ciliate protozoa characterized by a well-developed, conspicuous adoral zone of numerous b...

Sarcocystidae - A family of parasitic organisms in the order EIMERIIDAE. They form tissue-cysts in their intermediat...

Sarcocystis - A genus of protozoa found in reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans. This heteroxenous paras...

Sporadotrichina - A suborder of ciliate protozoa having a body that is commonly oval to elliptical in shape. Most spec...

Tetrahymena - A genus of ciliate protozoa commonly used in genetic, cytological, and other research....

Tetrahymena pyriformis - A species of ciliate protozoa used extensively in genetic research....

Tetrahymena thermophila - A species of ciliate protozoa used in genetic and cytological research....

Tetrahymenina - A suborder of ciliate protozoa. Most organisms are free-living in fresh water and many species are u...

Theileria - A genus of tick-borne protozoa parasitic in the lymphocytes, erythrocytes, and endothelial cells of ...

Theileria annulata - A protozoan parasite causing tropical theileriasis in cattle. It is transmitted by ticks of the Hyal...

Theileria parva - A protozoan parasite that is the etiologic agent of East Coast fever (THEILERIASIS). Transmission is...

Toxoplasma - A genus of protozoa parasitic to birds and mammals. T. gondii is one of the most common infectious p...

Trichostomatida - An order of ciliate protozoa in which the cytostome is usually situated at the base of an oral groov...

Trichostomatina - A suborder of ciliate protozoa characterized by non-reduction of the somatic ciliature....