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Syncystis is a genus ofparasitic alveolates in thephylumApicomplexa.
Species in this family infect insects (Aeshnidae).
This genus was described by Schneider in 1886.
Two species are currently recognised in this family.[1]
The type species isSyncystis mirabilis Schneider 1886.
The development of these parasites is mostly intracellular.Merogony results in the formation of about 150 elongate, slendermerozoites which become spheroidal as they differentiate into amoeboid or spheroidalgamonts.
The gamonts associate insyzygy and subdivide intogametes.
Fusion of the gametes leads to numerouszygotes within thegametocyst which is either spherical or bilobed.
Numerous (30 to 150)oocysts are formed per gametocyst. The oocysts are navicular and have three or four spines extending from each pole of the wall.
Eightsporozoites form per oocyst.
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