Glossary

This table lists the 113 glossary terms and identification criteria cited in this website.

Name

Research domain

Description

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,...

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.
Margolis L, Esch GW, Holmes...

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)
 

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...

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)...

Pages