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Parasitic, amoeboid dinoflagellates
Lois A. Pfiester,Jiří Popovský +1 more
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The life cycles of two members of this group, Stylodinium sphaera and Cystodinedria inermis, include a parasitic amoeboid stage which brings about vegetative reproduction and also possibly sexual reproduction.Abstract:
SEXUAL reproduction has so far been unknown among the Dinococcales, unicellular brown algae belonging to the Dinophyceae (dinoflagellates). As we report here, however, the life cycles of two members of this group, Stylodinium sphaera and Cystodinedria inermis, include a parasitic amoeboid stage which brings about vegetative reproduction and also possibly sexual reproduction. We believe that the two amoeboid forms have previously been identified mistakenly as a separate taxon of protozoon.read more
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Sexual reproduction of peridinum cinctum f. ovoplanum (dinophyceae)1,2
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Further evidence for a membrane‐bound endosymbiont within the dinoflagellate peridinium foliaceum1
S. W. Jeffrey,Maret Vesk +1 more
TL;DR: Observations suggest that P. foliaceum contains a membrane‐bound endosymbiont, similar to that already described for the closely related species P. balticum (Levander) Lemmermann.