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Vacuolamoeba

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51: 33: 245:. Their acanthopodial (tooth-shaped) extensions can form from all areas of the cell body. Occasionally, the cells produce filose uroidal extensions in their locomotive form. The cells mostly have one vesicular 308:"Expansion of the molecular and morphological diversity of Acanthamoebidae (Centramoebida, Amoebozoa) and identification of a novel life cycle type within the group" 423: 366: 461: 50: 261:
are between round and irregularly shaped, with a single wall, and usually form individually rather than in clusters.
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comes from the latin "Acantho", meaning "spine", and references the spiny shape of the
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with a diameter from 1.1 to 2.2 μm. The cyst diameter is approximately 8.0 μm.
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references the large size and prominence of the contractile vacuoles. The
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is often uninucleate with a single round centrally positioned
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Tice AK, Shadwick LL, Fiore-Donno AM, et al. (2016).
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Amoebozoa
Discosea
Centramoebida
Acanthamoebidae
Vacuolamoeba
Binomial name
discosean
Acanthamoebidae
Tibet
generic
specific
epithet
pseudopodia
Acanthamoeba
pseudopodia
lamellipodium
cytoplasmic inclusions
nucleus
nucleolus
vacuoles
cysts
nucleolus
nucleus
nucleolus

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