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Piroplasmida
Order of parasites in phylum Apicomplexa, vertebrate hosts, tick and leech vectors / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piroplasmida is an order of parasites in the phylum Apicomplexa.[3][4] They divide by binary fission and as sporozoan parasites they possess sexual and asexual phases (sexual reproduction occurs in the tick gut[5]). They include the tick parasites Babesia and Theileria.[6][7]
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Piroplasmida | |
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Babesia sp. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
Class: | Aconoidasida |
Order: | Piroplasmida |
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Piroplasmida phylogeny (mtDNA)[2] | |||||||||||||||
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