Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Cryptocystes.

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  • noun Plural form of microsporidian.

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Examples

  • Koella studies single-celled, eukaryotic parasites called microsporidia that, like fungi, also form spores and infect insects.

    News from The Scientist 2009

  • It's this type of thinking that led scientists astray when, for example, they believed that microsporidia were primitive eukaryotes.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • It's this type of thinking that led scientists astray when, for example, they believed that microsporidia were primitive eukaryotes.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • I see how you made the comparison with gradualism and microsporidia, but it's a superficial comparison.

    Dawkins on the OOL 2006

  • Freshwater nematodes are often infected with protozoan diseases and microsporidia.

    Nematoda 2008

  • Whereas scientists once classified microsporidia as protozoa, it is now generally recognized that they are highly evolved fungi.

    2005 May - Telic Thoughts 2005

  • Twenty-nine of those were specific to bees and they became the focus of the analysis, particularly viruses, fungi and microsporidia (a kind of single-celled fungus) called Nosema.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Twenty-nine of those were specific to bees and they became the focus of the analysis, particularly viruses, fungi and microsporidia (a kind of single-celled fungus) called Nosema.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Twenty-nine of those were specific to bees and they became the focus of the analysis, particularly viruses, fungi and microsporidia (a kind of single-celled fungus) called Nosema.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • An international team of biologists has discovered a new species of microsporidia, a single-celled parasite of animals, in a roundworm used in genetic laboratories around the world.

    UC San Diego - Videos 2009

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