sporozoa in English

noun
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a phylum of mainly parasitic spore-forming protozoans that have a complex life cycle with sexual and asexual generations. They include the organisms that cause malaria, babesiosis, coccidiosis, and toxoplasmosis.
Another example is Sporozoa , which exemplify the opposing selective forces that act on cell size and genome size in extracellular versus intracellular parasites.
noun
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a protozoan of the phylum Sporozoa.

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1. Two new species of Klossia (Sporozoa: Adeleidae) from a deer mouse and a bat

2. Haemogregarines (Protozoa: Sporozoa: Coccidia: Adeleidae) are the most common blood parasites found in marine fishes

3. Alveolate (plural Alveolates) A member of a grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates

4. Apicomplexan, also called sporozoan, any protozoan of the (typically) spore-producing phylum Apicomplexa, which is called by some authorities Sporozoa

5. The fifth Phylum of the Protist Kingdom, known as Apicomplexa, gathers several species of obligate intracellular protozoan parasites classified as Sporozoa or Sporozoans, because they form reproductive cells known as spores