BIOMI 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Balamuthia Mandrillaris, Acanthamoeba, Naegleria
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4 groups of eukaryotes: sar, stramenopiles, alveolates, rhizaria, archaeplastida, plantae, unikonts, animals, fungi, amoebozoa, excavates, flagellates. Insects - both: obligate parasites tend to have defining habitats within their hosts, adult cestodes (tapeworms) are almost always found in the small intestine, malaria species (plasmodium) have . Sexual stages in red blood cells of their hosts. Sex within the stomach of the mosquito: some nematodes pass through various tissues on their way to their ultimate development site, ex. ) Ancylostoma (hookworms) go through the skin and respiratory passages on the way to the intestine: trematodes (flukes) are often very specific in the location of adult forms, ex. ) lung fluke, liver fluke, bile duct fluke, intestinal fluke. Temporal relationships: parasites remain on their hosts only a short time, vampire bats, blood-sucking arthropods and leeches. Some are very fast: bedbugs feed in 15 min. and can live up to a year without another meal.
