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MICROBIOLOGY: Pfiesterian Lifestyle: Simple or Complex?
Jocelyn Kaiser
One amazing--and, to some observers, incredible--aspect of Pfiesteria's biology is its 24-stage life cycle, including amoeboid forms. Now a recent study directly challenges this claim, concluding that Pfiesteria's life cycle is much simpler.