How Often Do You Feed Your Puffer? in the Puffers forums, part of the Freshwater Fish Forums category. Hello, I have a new Figure 8 Puffer.
apÂ·iÂ·comÂ·plexÂ·an. n. Any of a phylum (Apicomplexa) of protozoans that have a group of organelles and other structures located in the apical end of the cell. Apicomplexans are parasitic in animals and include the organisms that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis.
The other connection between algae and the apicomplexa is a chloroplast remnant, called the apicoplast, found in most apicomplexans (2). The apicoplast is likely the result of a secondary endosymbiosis of a red algae and is likely the same endosymbiotic event giving rise to the plastids of dinoflagellates.