Apicomplexa

Broader Terms

Classification Higher order taxa: Eukaryota; Alveolata Genera: Babesia Leucocytozoon Plasmodium Sarcocystis Description and Significance Apicomplexa is a phylum made up almost entirely of parasites.
Evolutionary relationships of avian Eimeria species among other Apicomplexan protozoa: monophyly of the apicomplexa is supported.
Background to top Typical Life Cycle of Monocystis The mature feeding stage of a parasitic Apicomplexa is called the trophozoite (troph = feeding zoite=animal).
This suggests that the process of domain shuffling in the Apicomplexa is likely unrelated to the exon shuffling process of animal multidomain surface proteins.
One advantage in working with the Apicomplexa is that their genomes are relatively small, meaning that they can be more easily studied than larger and more complex ones.

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