"Amoeba" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D000656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.046.500.100.700.089
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Amoeba" by people in Profiles.
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Selection of Legionella Virulence-Related Traits by Environmental Protozoa. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1921:55-78.
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Diverse protist grazers select for virulence-related traits in Legionella. ISME J. 2015 Jul; 9(7):1607-18.
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A new heterolobosean amoeba Solumitrus palustris n. g., n. sp. isolated from freshwater marsh soil. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2011 Jan-Feb; 58(1):60-7.
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Proteins in nucleocytoplasmic interactions. VI. Is there an artefact responsible for the observed shuttling of proteins between cytoplasm and nucleus in Amoeba proteus? Exp Cell Res. 1972 Nov; 75(1):111-21.