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Name |
Research domain |
Description |
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Microneme |
Parasitology, Taxonomy | |
Micropores |
Taxonomy | |
Mixotrophy |
Photosynthesis, Symbiosis |
Heterotrophic nutritional mode of some photosynthetic organisms in which ingestion of food particles is required for existence. Definition by Selosse et al. 2017, Ecology Letters, 20: 246–... |
morphology |
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Muciferous body |
Taxonomy | |
Mucocyst |
Taxonomy |
An ejectile organelle; a minute structure that emerges through pores in the theca of armoured dinoflagellated that releases mucous or mucous threads when discharged. |
Mycoheterotrophy |
Symbiosis |
E heterotrophic nutrition of terrestrial plants that relies on carbon provided by fungi colonising the roots and forming mycorrhizae (see this word). |
Mycorrhiza |
Mycology, Symbiosis |
A dual symbiotic, often mutualistic, organ formed by a plant root and a soil fungus. In 90% of land plants, mycorrhizae allow the exchange of soil water and mineral nutrients, from the fungus, for... |
Myzocytosis |
Parasitology, Predation, Taxonomy |
A predatory mode whereby a cell can penetrate the cortex and draw in the cytoplasmic contents of a prey or host cell. The prey is suctioned into a food vacuole via a feeding tube or peduncle, and... |
Necrotrophic mixotrophy |
Predation |
Definition by Selosse et al. 2017, Ecology Letters, 20: 246–263. |
Nematocyst |
Taxonomy | |
Numbering of somatic kineties |
The numbering commences with the ventral kinety or, when this ciliary row is absent, with the leftmost kinety of the right ciliary field and continues in clockwise direction when the cell is... |
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Open-sided conoid |
Parasitology, Taxonomy |
See conoid |
Organelle |
Taxonomy |
A specialized subcellular structure having a special function(e.g. the mitochondrion) |
Osmotrophy |
Ecology, Parasitology |
Method of feeding by the absorption of soluble nutritive material from surrouding environment. |
Palintomy |
Parasitology, Life cycle |
Process during which a large parental cell undergoes a rapid sequence of repeated divisions without intervening growth. Observed during sporogenesis of parasites, and free-living organisms (such... |
Palisporogenesis |
Parasitology |
Sporogenesis type observed in some dinoflagellate parasite (Blastodinium, Haplozoon, Apodinium, Chytriodinium), resulting in the formation of two heterodynamic daughter cells, that will have... |
Paralorica |
A paralorica is a replacement lorica formed by a morphostatic cell (Laval-Peuto and Brownlee 1986). Agatha and Riedel-Lorjé (2006) |
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Parasitophorous membrane |
Parasitology, Taxonomy | |
Phagocytosis |
Predation, Parasitology |
Phagocytosis is the uptake of food particles by embracement through pseudopodia or similar mobile cytoplasmic processes; if the organism feeds on cells, the cell is taken |
