Monocystis Life Cycle


A.  Feeding Trophozoite with host sperm tails on outer surface
B.  Mating gamont pair
C.  Gamonts producing gametes within gametocyst
D.  Pairing of mating gametes to form zygotes
E.  Haploid oocysts within gametocyst
F.  Single oocyst with developing sporozoites
G.  Mature oocyst with eight sporozoites
H.  Oocyst shedding sporozoites

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