Web Directory

» Actinophrys
   Photographic study by Chitchai Chantangsi of this member of the Heliozoa, or sun animalcules.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb02/ccactino.html

» Amebiasis
   Information on Entamoeba histolytica which is a human pathogen, with diagrams and information on its life cycle.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Amebiasis.htm

» Amoeba
   Photographs and information on these simple single-celled organisms.
   http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/amoeba.htm

» Amoebas are More than Just Blobs
   Article by Wim van Egmond on the humble Amoeba, how to find and identify it, its behavior, locomotion and feeding, with many fine photographs.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep01/amoeba.html

» An Interesting Amoeba: Naegleria
   Photograph and information on this pathogenic species.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec01/mmamoeba.html

» Giardia lamblia
   Information on this parasite which may cause diarrhoea in humans.
   http://www.ashtree.co.uk/pages/features/bacteria/giardia-lamblia.php

» Giardiasis
   Information on Giardia intestinalis (or Giardia lamblia) which is a human pathogen, and diagrams and information on the life cycle of this protozoan flagellate.
   http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Giardiasis.htm

» Life Cycle of a Giardia lamblia
   Short video showing how this parasite develops after it has been ingested.
   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-965376292862019004&hl=en

» Mastigophora: Flagellates that Move with a Whip
   Illustrations and information on about ten of these protists which include Chlamydomonas, Volvox and Euglena.
   http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/mastigophora/mastigophora.htm

» MicrobeWiki: Ameba
   Description and significance, genome structure, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
   http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ameba

» Naegleria
   Information on these pathogenic free-living amoebae, with several videos from the Microbiology Video Library.
   http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Naegleria.html

» Protist Images: Mastigophora
   Provides a classification of these flagellates with images of a number of individual species. English and Japanese.
   http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/MastigophoraE.html

» Sarcodina: Move with pseudopodia
   Illustrations and information on several species including amoeba, with microscopic images of many of them.
   http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/sarcodina/sarcodina.htm

» Sun Animalcules and Amoebas
   Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with several excellent photographs.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/sundr.html

» Testate Amoebae, Peat Bogs and Past Climates
   Photographic article by Graeme Swindles on the testate amoeba fossils to be found in core samples of peat, and the deductions that can be made about the climate.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/gsamoebae.html

» Trichomonads
   Tutorial providing information on these parasites, their taxonomy, and the diseases caused by them that affect domestic animals and humans.
   http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/d.p.humber/trichtut.htm

» Trichomonas vaginalis
   Research project by Mary Strous at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
   http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/strous_mary

» Voracious Soil Amoebae
   Image gallery of amoebae with large appetites, enveloping algae and other prey larger than themselves.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artfeb05/pjvoraceou.html