Although several sites of metabolic processes are available to the web browser, they are generally loaded with superfluous information, much of which may not be relevant for malaria parasites. The purpose of this site was to extract the pertinent information from the universal sites and to present them in an educative and informative format. ... [Information of the supplier]
Paramecium is a unicellular eukaryote of large size (120 micrometers) that belongs to the ciliate phylum. Ciliates share two characteristics: the presence of vibrating cilia which assure their locomotion and food capture, and nuclear dimorphism. Indeed, ciliates, like multicellular eukaryotes, separate germinal and somatic functions, but they do so in the form of two different kinds of nuclei. A diploid germinal micronucleus transmits the genetic information to the next sexual generation, while a polyploid somatic macronucleus is responsible for gene expression. The Paramecium tetraurelia macronuclear genome was recently sequenced by the Genoscope French National Sequencing Center. ParameciumDB is a new model organism database associated with the genome sequencing project. Built with core components of the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project, ParameciumDB currently contains the macronuclear genome sequence and annotations, linked to available genetic data (RNA interference data and stock collection). ... [Information of the supplier]
dictyBase is a database that provides a centralized source of information on the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum for Dictyostelium researchers and Non-Dictyostelium researchers. This includes tutorials, dictyNews, techniques, the Stock Center, genomic and molecular information, colleague infromation, Dictyostelium literature, and much more. Scientific curation makes this database especially valuable. The search box at the top of every page can be used to search for any gene name, alias, gene product, or GenBank accession number. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The term "amoebae" covers an enormously diverse group of protists that have adopted a crawling like method of locomotion. This web site is an attempt to draw together information on the amoeba from the various sources. The literature, especially the older work, have tended to be published in obscure journals and other publications that are difficult to get hold of. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
On this web site we are using the informal term "plasmodiophorids" for the group that was the subject of Karling's 1968 monograph, The Plasmodiophorales, and for a number of years was included in the fungi (Sparrow 1960, Waterhouse 1972). Donald Barr recognized that ultrastructural evidence suggested that plasmodiophorids should be considered as protozoa (Barr 1992), and relatively recent studies (Adl et al. 2005, Bass et al. 2009, Cavalier-Smith & Chao 2003) classified plasmodiophorids as Phytomyxea within the Cercozoa, which is in a supergroup known as the Rhizaria in what many people traditionally would consider as protozoa. Burki et al. (2010), however, grouped the Phytomyxea with Gromia Dujardin along with a clade of Acantherea and Foraminifera outside the core Cercozoa when some assumptions were made using large numbers of phytomyxid gene sequences. It does not matter if you put the plasmodiophorids in the Cercozoa vs. the clade with Acantherea and Foraminifera close to the core Cercozoa, they are still in the Rhizaria, not in the fungi. So mycologists and plant pathologists it is time to get over it and stop referring to the plasmodiophorids as "parasitic fungi." Stay tuned to see what the final outcome of the molecular phylogenetic studies will tell us. I'm looking forward to it. ... [Information of the supplier]
Foraminifera are marin protozoa (unicellular animals). This web page provide an insight to there diversity. Recent and extinct taxa are introduced to. Pictures are available for each of them. Several search functions are presented (genera, regions, higher taxa). Furthermore, a key and a comprehensive literature collection are offered. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
Radiolaria.org is an online database containing information about radiolarians. The idea behind Radiolaria.org is that anybody can contribute with their expertise, i.e. add species with images, descriptions, references, synonyms, taxonomy and links etc. Under each species there is also a discussion forum where you can post and exchange ideas, opinions, comments etc. Anyone has the opportunity to contribute from any web browser any time. Hopefully this will be an easy way of sharing and exchanging data between all radiolarian researchers. ... [Information of the supplier]
The 33rd Meeting of the German Society for Protozoology will be held in Essen, Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany) in February 2014. The aim of the DGP society is to stimulate and promote all scientific activities related to protistology or, the study of unicellular eukaryotes (photo-, mixo- and heterotrophic protists). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
We cordially invite you to attend the Eleventh International Coccidiosis Conference (ICC-XI), 26-30 September, 2014, in Dresden, Germany. There are few eras in parasitology that have experienced such important growth in knowledge than what is currently occurring in the apicomplexan protozoa, especially with the Coccidia. This is not by chance, but reflects the enormous biodiversity of these organisms, which are the most important parasites of humans and livestock, and thus provide many good reasons for investment in long-term research, because rapid solutions are not possible. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to the official website of the 35th annual meeting of the German Society for Protozoology, taking place on February 23rd-26th 2016 in Saignelégier, Jura, Switzerland. The meeting will be hosted by the Laboratory of Soil Biology, University of Neuchâtel. The meeting will cover a broad range of research topics within protozoology, including taxonomy, phylogenomics, evolution, parasitology, and cell biology. The official conference language will be English. ... [Information of the supplier]
