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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 ...
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.
Amoeba is a genus of single-celled amoeboids in the family Amoebidae. [2] The type species of the genus is Amoeba proteus , a common freshwater organism, widely studied in classrooms and laboratories.
It includes the 'archetypal' amoebae, known as the naked lobose amoebae or 'gymnamoebae' [102] (such as Amoeba itself), [103] among which is a genus of sorocarp-forming slime moulds, Copromyxa. [104] Some gymnamoebae are important pathogens to animals (e.g., Acanthamoeba ). [ 105 ]
The heterolobosean pathogen Naegleria fowleri can behave as an amoeba (center) or as a flagellate (right).. An amoeboflagellate (pl. amoeboflagellates) is any eukaryotic organism capable of behaving as an amoeba and as a flagellate at some point during their life cycle.
From a fluid dynamical perspective, [32] their relatively large size and easy culturing conditions allow for precise studies of their motility, the flows they create with their flagella, and interactions between organisms, while their high degree of symmetry simplifies theoretical descriptions of those same phenomena.
The commissioner of the New York Police Department said there are "no specific credible threats" to the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.
Acanthamoebidae is a family of single-celled eukaryotes within the group Amoebozoa.. It gets its name from Acanthamoeba, its best-known member.However, it also includes other species, such as Comandonia operculata and Protacanthamoeba bohemica. [1]