What's the difference between gregarine and protozoan?
Gregarine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Gregarinae.
(n.) One of the Gregarinae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsporidia are a group of unusual, obligately parasitic protists that infect a great variety of other eukaryotes, including vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, annelids, nematodes, cnidaria and even various ciliates, myxosporidia and gregarines.
(2) Two species or even two genus of Dermaptera can be parasitized by the same Gregarine; c) The life-cycle, from ingested sporocysts to new sporocysts, is from 13 to 16 days for Gragarina ovata (species with large sporocysts) and from 11 to 13 days for Gregarian fallax (species with small sporocysts.
(3) A variety of microorganisms and metazoa was observed, including a baculovirus, gram-negative bacteria, rickettsia-like organisms, amoebae, trypanosomatid flagellates, cephaline gregarines, and microsporidia.
(4) The formation of brown bodies in the coelomic cavity may result from an aggregation of coelomocytes around offending foreign cells such as bacteria, gregarines, incompatible graft fragments, and altered self structures such as setae or necrotic muscle cells.
(5) Cytochalasin B (= CCB, Phomin) in several concentrations inhibits the visible movement of gregarines.
(6) An exceptionally efficient mechanism for the vertical transmission of a parasitic gregarine is dependent on the insect host's immune response.
(7) The body of the gregarine is in all stages surrounded by a thick cell-wall constituted of three membranes.
(8) The model studied allows us to determine the role of the epimerite in the parasite's nutrition, as well as the development of the chondriome and of the cortical membranes in the course of the vegetative growth phase of the cephaline gregarine.
(9) Four mosquito species were cross-infected in the laboratory with gregarines isolated from field-collected hosts.
(10) The male gamete of the Gregarine Lecudina tuzetae has been studied with transmission electron microscopy and microcinematography.
(11) Study of 14 species of Gregarines from terrestrial arthropods (Myriapoda and Insecta) of south Korea.
(12) They consisted of the gregarines (subclass Gregarinasida) (1624 named species and 231 named genera), the hemogregarines (family Haemogregarinidae) (399 species and 4 genera), the eimeriorins (order Eimeriorida) (1771 species and 43 genera), the hemospororids (order Haemospororida) (444 species and 9 genera), the piroplasmids (order Piroplasmorida) (173 species and 20 genera), and a few others (105 species and 32 genera).
(13) The gregarine has the unusual features of transverse orientation of the epicyte folds and two anterior pouch-like hollows.
(14) A checklist is given of the 89 named species of the gregarine family Lecudininae, exclusive of the 42 named species of the genus Lecudina (phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoea, subclass Gregarinia, order Eugregarinida, suborder Aseptatina).
(15) Two species of septate gregarines of the genus Gregarina Dufor, were found G. blattarum (Siebold) from mid gut of P. americana and G. rigida from gut of S. gregaria, also six species of Mastigophora in gut of white ant A. ochraceus, Trichonympha campanula, Spirotrichonympha sp., Holomastigoides hartmanni, Rostronympha magna Monocercomonas axostylis and an unidentified species.
(16) The La Crosse (LAC) virus infection rate of Aedes triseriatus larvae that ingest LAC virus does not appear to be increased by concomitant infection of larvae by the gregarine parasite, Ascocystis barretti.
(17) This Gregarine in named Pterospora petaloprocti n. sp.
(18) The aseptate gregarine, Ascogregarina chagasi (Adler and Mayrink), found in a Colombian strain of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz and Neiva), was fed to the larvae of seven species of laboratory-bred sand flies: Phlebotomus papatasi (Scopoli), P. argentipes Annandale and Brunetti, P. perniciosus Newstead, L. serrana (Damasceno and Arouck), L. abonnenci (Floch and Chassignet), L. columbiana (Ristorcelli and Van Ty), and a gregarine-free Brazilian strain of L. longipalpis.
(19) We study in the present paper two collections of Gregarines (all parasite of terrestrial arthropods) from the Ivory Coast and the Gaboon.
(20) Aedes albopictus collected in the East St. Louis, Illinois, area were found infected with the gregarine protozoan, Ascogregarina taiwanensis.
Protozoan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.
(n.) One of the Protozoa.
Example Sentences:
(1) This ability may be associated with virulence, because an attenuated strain of L. pneumophila fails to multiply within this protozoan, whereas a virulent strain increases 10,000-fold in number when coincubated with T. pyriformis.
(2) Upon incubation with fluoresceinylated neoglycoproteins, isolated macronuclei from the ciliated protozoan Euplotes eurystomus display different labelling patterns depending on the nature of the sugar bound to the neoglycoproteins.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) We compared the molecular nature of the rat brain opiate receptor with that of the invertebrate leech, Haemopis marmorata, and the protozoan, Tetrahymena, in order to examine the issue of apparent receptor heterogeneity with respect to biochemical structure.
(5) The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is able to replicate in the cytoplasm of primary resident macrophages, but is killed by activated macrophages.
(6) Axenic H. vermiformis strain CDC-19 has been deposited with the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC 50237) and should prove useful in the study of protozoan-bacterial interaction.
(7) No cross reactions were observed in sera immune to other protozoan, helmintic and bacterial infections, although some cross reactivity was seen in P. falciparum immune sera.
(8) Alveolar macrophages from the 3 groups of subjects had similar limited microbicidal ability for the obligate intracellular protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, and similar numbers of elastase receptors and affinity for elastase.
(9) DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from blood forms and culture forms of the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei was resolved into multiple peaks of activity by DEAE-Sephadex chromatography.
(10) A list is provided of the naturally or experimentally Aedes aegypti transmitted arboviruses (103), protozoans (5) and filaria (20).
(11) A 50% inhibition of the biosynthesis of dihydrosterculate is observed in the presence of 4 microM 10-thiastearate in the protozoan growth medium, but little effect is seen on the distribution of the other fatty acids.
(12) Protozoan species abundance was reduced to less than half by Zn but was unaffected by snails.
(13) Its presence in Giardia is consistent with the view that ARF emerged before the divergence of this protozoan from other eukaryotes (approximately 1.5 billion years ago), and that an ARF-like protein may have been the ancestor of several other classes of signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, including the alpha subunits of the heterotrimeric G proteins.
(14) We have found that the anaerobic protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia is incapable of de novo pyrimidine metabolism, as shown by its inability to incorporate orotate, bicarbonate, and aspartate into the pyrimidine nucleotide pool.
(15) Entamoeba coli was the most frequent protozoan (23.5%).
(16) In the macronucleus of the ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis GL, the genes coding for 17S and 25S rRNA exist as free, extrachromosomal molecules.
(17) Faecal samples were collected from 20 pigs in 4 age groups in randomly selected piggeries, and examined for the presence of eggs of helminth parasites and protozoan cysts.
(18) Nucleoside salvage pathways are vital to the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, and have become important targets in the development of new chemotherapeutic agents against this organism.
(19) It is now well established that pathogens such as viruses, fungi bacteria and protozoans can have profound effects on the dynamics of their invertebrate host populations.
(20) Leishmania donovani, the protozoan causing visceral leishmaniasis, is an obligate intracellular parasite of mammalian macrophages.