bryozoa

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Researchers had previously discovered the parasite in freshwater bryozoa, which are colony-forming animals that feed on microscopic algae.

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  1. A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also Polyzoa.

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  1. marine or freshwater animals that form colonies of zooids

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  • Researchers had previously discovered the parasite in freshwater bryozoa, which are colony-forming animals that feed on microscopic algae. —  Fishupdate.com
  • Some species of the bryozoa resemble plants and can fragment to form new colonies that could spread the disease. —  Fishupdate.com
  • Prof Adams said: 'We were able to show that the parasite that causes deadly PKD in fish could cycle between brown trout and bryozoa indefinitely.' —  Fishupdate.com
  • _Sabinei_ and an extraordinary mass of bryozoa, resembling collections of the eggs of mollusca. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • When so many of the laboratories and so much of the equipment were swept away, outsiders became aware of the excellent work which was being done in those laboratories; of the modern work in Geology and Geography carried on not only in Wellesley but for the teachers of Boston by Professor Fisher who is so wisely developing the department which Professor Niles set on its firm foundation; of the work of Professor Robertson who is an authority on the bryozoa fauna of the Pacific coast of North America and Japan; of the authoritative work on the life history of Pinus, by Professor —  The Story of Wellesley
 

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