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Organism Forms > Life Cycle Stages > Oocysts > Sporozoites
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Metamorphosis, Biological > Life Cycle Stages > Oocysts > Sporozoites
Cells > Spores > Spores, Protozoan > Oocysts > Sporozoites
Organism Forms > Spores > Spores, Protozoan > Oocysts > Sporozoites

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Sporozoites  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • The product of meiotic division of zygotes in parasitic protozoa comprising haploid cells. These infective cells invade the host and undergo asexual reproduction producing MEROZOITES (or other forms) and ultimately gametocytes.

History note

  • 2003

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D034101

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