Sentence examples for encystment from inspiring English sources

Encystment sometimes occurs.

Without encystment, which allows the organism to live in a dormant state in an unfavourable environment (e.g., water), amebic dysentery could be much more easily controlled.

During adverse environmental periods many amoebas survive by encystment: the amoeba becomes circular, loses most of its water, and secretes a cyst membrane that serves as a protective covering.

During the encystment process, the protozoan cell undergoes a series of changes that considerably reduce the complexity of the organism.

In encystment by the nitrogen-fixing Azotobacter, cell division is followed by the formation of a thick, multilayered wall and coat that surround the resting cell.

Protist life cycles range from relatively simple ones that may involve only periodic binary fissions to very complex schemes that may contain asexual and sexual phases, encystment and excystment, and in the case of many symbiotic and parasitic forms an alternation of hosts.

In the genus Trichonympha encystment and sexual reproduction are initiated by the molting of the host woodroach.

Encystment within a siliceous wall plugged by cytoplasm is common.

Distribution is by encystment after reproduction; the cyst escapes in host feces and is ingested by another host.