plasmodia

When the germinating spores of the fungi, _myxomycetes_, rupture their walls and become masses of naked protoplasm, they are known as plasmodia.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887

Laveran had found that in the blood of sufferers who recover spontaneously from malarial fever there are a great number of corpuscles which have no longer the rounded forms of the plasmodia, but are crescent-shaped and rayed.

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We may well wonder: Why did not Laveran simply recognize those sexual forms, and why did he not seek for the period of conjugation in the plasmodia, which were animal micro-organisms?

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He took these to be transformations of the plasmodia, "modified in form" and "incapable of producing disease," and pronounced them to be "degenerate" organisms, almost as if they had been deformed and exhausted by the "excess of work" they had previously performed.

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How was it that no one asked himself how it was possible that the plasmodia could enter the _current of the blood_ from the _air_?

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But evidently Morel's theories of the degeneration of man had made a much livelier impression on his imagination; and his leap from these remote theories to his interpretation of the plasmodia seemed an achievement of

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Many cases are on record which had typical chills and fever, with abundance of plasmodia in the blood, years after leaving the tropics or other malarious districts; but there is often the possibility of a recent re-infection.

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That which interested me in the matter was the apparent analogy of _Bathybius_ with other well-known forms of lower life, such as the plasmodia of the Myxomycetes and the

Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays

The ridiculously baroque lifecycle of plasmodia are best grasped from straightforward text with lots of diagrams and tables, not poetic language with lots of adjectives.

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Regardless of what you wish to state about the malaria plasmodia, the best example of evolution in action is the Lenski experiments because he retains the entire record of every genetic event that leads to every change.

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