Glossary
Name |
Research domain |
Description |
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Photosymbiosis |
Photosynthesis, Symbiosis |
A symbiosis that unites a heterotrophic and an autotrophic organism, usually an endosymbiosis where a unicellular autotroph is engulfed in a heterotrophic host cell. In eukaryotic evolution, this... |
Pinocytosis |
Parasitology |
Pinocytosis is a kind of endocytosis where non-particular, membrane-adsorbed material is internalized; it is applied when cells feed on disintegrated organic material. Schnepf and Deichgräber 1984... |
Polar ring |
Parasitology, Taxonomy | |
Posterior kinety |
The posterior kinety is posterior to the lateral ciliary field. The term was introduced by Choi et al. (1992) and is favoured, as the names “Ventro- Lateralkinete” (Foissner and Wilbert 1979,... |
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Prevalence |
Parasitology |
Number of individuals of a host species infected with a particular parasite species divided by the number of hosts examined. Usually expressed as a pourcentage. |
Processes/spicules |
Taxonomy | |
Protolorica |
A protolorica is built by the proter just after cell division (Laval-Peuto and Brownlee 1986). Agatha and Riedel-Lorjé (2006) |
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Pyrenoid |
Taxonomy |
Cytoplasmic structure made of protein or appended to the chloroplasts in most microalgae. They are associated with the formation or storage of polysaccharide food reserves (usually starch). |
Pyrenoid (compound) |
Taxonomy |
Described in Levanderina fissa (Dinophyceae). Centrally the cell contained numerous aggregated pyrenoids. They formed a compound pyrenoid system. The pyrenoids lacked penetrating thylakoid... |
Pyrenoid (lenticular) |
Taxonomy | |
Refractile body |
Taxonomy | |
Rhoptry |
Parasitology, Taxonomy |
The primary extrusive organelle associated with the apical complex of apicomplexans, colpodellids and perkinsids. These organelles tend to be clubshaped whereby the narrower, distal ends are... |
Right ciliary field |
The right ciliary field is on the right side of the ventral kinety, the ventral organelles, or a blank stripe. The name for this ciliary field on the right cell side was introduced by Snyder and... |
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Sporangiospore |
Mycology, Taxonomy |
An asexual spore produced within a sporangium. |
Sporangium |
Mycology, Parasitology, Taxonomy | |
Spore |
Life cycle |
The result of the Sporogony. Propagules produced either sexually or asexually, generally unicellular, able to form an adult without fusion with another cell. Spores are haploid in Botany and... |
Sporocyte |
Life cycle |
Single cell sporocyst. |
Sporogony |
Life cycle |
Multiple fissions occurring either during sexual or asexual reproductions. |
Sporozoite |
Life cycle |
The result of the sporogony. Sporozoites are used to infect novel hosts. |
Striae |
Striae are beaded, longitudinal cytoplasmic strands that are enclosed together with an collar membranelle by the perilemma (Laval 1972, Laval- Peuto 1994). The term was introduced by Entz (1929)... |