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  • noun Plural form of alveolate.

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  • My own paper, of course, should be following Microsoft's example, and be utterly free of any mentions of alveolates and archaea, but what can I say?

    Microsoft's spell checker: mariness 2007

  • We performed sensitive bioinformatic searches of genomes of parasitic protozoa in the crown group alveolates whose sequences are currently publicly available.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Since some Apicomlexans posses alveoli they are placed in a group named alveolates.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Other differences in the taxonomic recovery of tags included representatives from alveolates (Apicomplexa and Ciliophora), Ichthyosporea, Metazoa, parabasalids, rhodophytes, stramenopiles, Fungi and Viridiplantae.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al. 2009

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