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What is a gregarine?

What is a gregarine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various sporozoan protozoans that are parasitic in the digestive tracts of some invertebrates.
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Gregarine parasites alternate hosts, having the reproductive and vegetative phase in the intestines of xanthid crabs, and sporogony in oysters.
In Jodi's case, she was looking at some of the effects of host intestinal environment on gregarine metabolism and survival.
For at last they become an Acinetan or a gregarine, exactly like the parent-cell from which they arose as embryos.
The students established beetle populations with and without gregarine infection and then monitored the population over time.
Histological examination showed gregarine protozoan Nematopsis sp.
This mode of infection probably explains why heavy infections in this gregarine are rare, even in crowded cultures of roaches?

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