We suggest that incidental cell death is the better term with regard to parasitic protozoa, as this avoids any anthropomorphic connotations and provides clear distinction from the term accidental ...

The term protozoan (plural: protozoa or protozoans ... which were described by von Seibold as single-celled animals. In 1860, the concept of protozoans was further refined and they were elevated ...

On the other hand it is believed that our distant relatives from the family branches of plants, algae and excavates (single-celled parasites) originally had two flagella. The protozoan from Ås ...

Tiny protozoa may hold key to world water safety Date: December 12, 2010 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Summary: Biologists have developed a sensor that employs one-celled protozoa ...

A new study has now revealed more about how a protozoan that lives in the human gut microbiome can affect the health and immunity of the lungs. The findings have been reported in Cell. "Peaceful gut ...

In aquatic environments it is instead protozoa – tiny, single-celled organisms – that are the bacteria's enemy number one. Normally the bacteria die when engulfed by the protozoa, but some ...

The relatively recent discovery of aquaporins (AQP) has introduced a new mechanism of membrane transport that may provide a therapeutic target for parasitic protozoan infections. The AQP family of ...

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...