Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Cryptocystes .
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- noun Plural form of
microsporidian .
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Examples
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Koella studies single-celled, eukaryotic parasites called microsporidia that, like fungi, also form spores and infect insects.
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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
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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
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I see how you made the comparison with gradualism and microsporidia, but it's a superficial comparison.
Dawkins on the OOL 2006
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Freshwater nematodes are often infected with protozoan diseases and microsporidia.
Nematoda 2008
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Whereas scientists once classified microsporidia as protozoa, it is now generally recognized that they are highly evolved fungi.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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