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  2. Dictyostelium discoideum - Wikipedia

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    Life cycle. Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime.

  3. Monica Taylor - Wikipedia

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    (Sister) Monica Taylor (1877 – 1968) was an English protozoologist. After a struggle to pursue higher education as a nun of the Order of Notre Dame de Namur , and being arrested during World War II on suspicion of being a German parachutist in disguise, [ 1 ] she received several honours for her work in the field of amoebic zoology.

  4. Symbiosis in Amoebozoa - Wikipedia

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    Giant viruses, or nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, frequently infect Amoebozoa and other protists causing amoeba lysis and cell rounding in 12 hours and amoeba population collapse in 55 hours. [3] As such, there is a strong selective pressure on both Amoebozoa and their symbionts to resist these viruses.

  5. Amoebozoa - Wikipedia

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    An amoeba of the genus Mayorella (Amoebozoa, Discosea) Amoebozoa is a large and diverse group, but certain features are common to many of its members. The amoebozoan cell is typically divided into a granular central mass, called endoplasm, and a clear outer layer, called ectoplasm. During locomotion, the endoplasm flows forwards and the ...

  6. Amoeba - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from top right: Amoeba proteus, Actinophrys sol, Acanthamoeba sp., Nuclearia thermophila., Euglypha acanthophora, neutrophil ingesting bacteria. An amoeba (/ ə ˈ m iː b ə /; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; pl.: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae) / ə ˈ m iː b i /), [1] often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability ...

  7. Sisters and breast cancer survivors get makeovers - AOL

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    Two sisters from Massachusetts got well-deserved makeovers on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kristen Flynn and Sally Peterson told their stories Oct. 16 of ...

  8. Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia

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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 an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .

  9. ‘Doctors Dismissed My Chronic Cough As Allergies. It Was ...

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    Jessica DeCristofaro was diagnosed with stage 4B Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare form of cancer, at 28 years old. Here, she shares her story and what doctors missed. ‘Doctors Dismissed My Chronic ...