Directory of Sarcomastigophora Resources

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Phylum of protozoa, including amoebas and flagellates (such as trypanosomes and giardia).

Resources in This Category

• Actinophrys

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb02/ccactino.html
  Photographic study by Chitchai Chantangsi of this member of the Heliozoa, or sun animalcules.

• Amebiasis

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/amebiasis/
  Information on Entamoeba histolytica which is a human pathogen, with diagrams and information on its life cycle.

• Amoeba

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba
  Article from Wikipedia on this single-celled organism, its habitat, anatomy and reaction to outside stimuli such as changes in salinity.

• Amoeba

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/amoeba.htm
  Photographs and information on these simple single-celled organisms.

• Amoebas are More than Just Blobs

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep01/amoeba.html
  Article by Wim van Egmond on the humble Amoeba, how to find and identify it, its behavior, locomotion and feeding, with many fine photographs.

• An Interesting Amoeba: Naegleria

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec01/mmamoeba.html
  Photograph and information on this pathogenic species.

• Giardia lamblia

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardia_lamblia
  Information from Wikipedia on this protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut, its life cycle, how the infection manifests itself and how it can be prevented and treated.

• Giardiasis

  http://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/giardiasis/
  Information on Giardia intestinalis (or Giardia lamblia) which is a human pathogen, and diagrams and information on the life cycle of this protozoan flagellate.

• Mastigophora: Flagellates that Move with a Whip

  http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/mastigophora/mastigophora.htm
  Illustrations and information on about ten of these protists which include Chlamydomonas, Volvox and Euglena.

• MicrobeWiki: Ameba

  http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ameba
  Description and significance, genome structure, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

• Protist Images: Mastigophora

  http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/MastigophoraE.html
  Provides a classification of these flagellates with images of a number of individual species. English and Japanese.

• Sarcodina: Move with pseudopodia

  http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/sarcodina/sarcodina.htm
  Illustrations and information on several species including amoeba, with microscopic images of many of them.

• Sun Animalcules and Amoebas

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/sundr.html
  Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with several excellent photographs.

• Testate Amoebae, Peat Bogs and Past Climates

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/gsamoebae.html
  Photographic article by Graeme Swindles on the testate amoeba fossils to be found in core samples of peat, and the deductions that can be made about the climate.

• Trichomonas vaginalis

  http://www.pharmacology2000.com/Chemotherapy/Antibacterial/tricho1.htm
  Photomicrographs of this organism.

• Trichomonas vaginalis

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/strous_mary
  Research project by Mary Strous at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.

• Voracious Soil Amoebae

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb05/pjvoraceou.html
  Image gallery of amoebae with large appetites, enveloping algae and other prey larger than themselves.

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