A genus of ameboid protozoa. Characteristics include a vesicular nucleus and the formation of several PSEUDOPODIA, one of which is dominant at a given time. Reproduction occurs asexually by binary fission.
    

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Phagocytosis

Ameba, SEM

Pathogenic and non-pathogenic amoebae / by B.N. Singh.

Taxonomy of the Amebas : with descriptions of thirty-nine new marine and freshwater species / By Asa Arthur Schaeffer.

A new protozoon : its relation to malignant and other diseases / by Roger Wyburn-Mason.

The parasitic amoebae of man / by Charles F. Craig.

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Pathogenic and non-pathogenic amoebae / by B.N. Singh.

Taxonomy of the Amebas : with descriptions of thirty-nine new marine and freshwater species / By Asa Arthur Schaeffer.

A new protozoon : its relation to malignant and other diseases / by Roger Wyburn-Mason.

The parasitic amoebae of man / by Charles F. Craig.

Phagocytosis