inositol
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
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inositol A carbohydrate derivative, a constituent of
phospholipids (phosphatidyl inositols) involved in membrane structure and as part of the signalling mechanism for
hormones which act at the cell surface. It is an essential nutrient for micro‐organisms and some animals, although there is no evidence that it is a dietary essential for human beings. Obsolete names are inosite and meat sugar.
The insecticide gammexane is hexachlorocyclohexane, and appears to function by competing with inositol. The hexaphosphate ester of inositol is
phytic acid.
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Reports summarize environmental microbiology study results from J. Friaslopez and co-researchers.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 3/13/2009; 700+ words
; ...highly labelled: Prymnesiophyceae (Haptophyta), Dictyochophyceae (Stramenopiles), Bolidomonas (Stramenopiles) and Dinoflagellata (Alveolata). For the first three of these, the closest relative of the sequences identified was a photosynthetic organism...
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Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...material shows that these palynomorphs may represent the eggs of crustaceans, and that earlier attributions to the division Dinoflagellata are unsustainable. The genus Aquadulcum Harland and Sarjeant, 1970, also first described as a dinoflagellate from the...
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The extant thermophilic dinoflagellate Tectatodinium Pellitum (al.Tectatodinium Rugulatum) from the Danian of Denmark
Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...from the same slide are described in the Systematic Paleontology section that follows. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY Division DINOFLAGELLATA (BUtschli, 1885) Fensome et al., 1993 Class DiNOPHYCEAE Pascher, 1914 Subclass PERIDINIPHYCIDAE Fensome et al...
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Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: Journal of Paleontology; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...example of a hypocystal archeopyle in the order Gonyaulacales and the only example of a hypotractal archeopyle in the division Dinoflagellata. The spherical, proximate cysts have pre-formed lines of weakness that occur exclusively on the hypocyst, where they...
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Temporary swim ban at 3 local beaches: Three Newport News beaches are off limits to swimming until at least Monday. Red tide may have hit the James River.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA); 8/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...with it the nitrogen that these organisms needed to bloom. The protoplankton that typically lives in area waters -- a dinoflagellata known as Cochlodinium -- is not believed to be harmful to humans, Shields said. But when it dies, bacteria move in to...
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Zooflagellate phylogeny and the systematics of protozoa.(Evolution: A Molecular Point of View)(includes discussion)
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...and chlorarachnean algae) and the four higher eukaryotic kingdoms. Some zooflagellates, notably in the Chromista and Dinoflagellata, have arisen secondarily by independent losses of plastids. Multiple losses of cilia, mitochondria (or their conversion...
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Dinoflagellata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dinoflagellata , phylum (division) of unicellular, mostly marine algae , called dinoflagellates. In some classification systems this division...
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Pyrrhophyta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pyrrhophyta see Dinoflagellata .
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Dogel, Valentin Alexandrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...comparative anatomy of invertebrates. In the area of protozoology he studied the morphology and taxonomy of Gregarina , Dinoflagellata, Catenata, Polymastigina, and Hypermastigina (from the intestines of termites) and Infusoria from the stomach of ruminants...
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red tide
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
red tide see Dinoflagellata .
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Dinomastigota
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology
Dinomastigota ( Dinoflagellata ) A phylum of mostly single-celled organisms classified in the kingdom Protoctista. They are abundant in the marine plankton...
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