Life Cycle of Monocystis agilis
Each one of the following steps contains a general description of what is occuring at a stage, to get a more detailed description of what is occuring at each stage just click on the Stage Number (which should be in blue and/or underlined).
*** Some inbetween stages are intermediate stages that are not important to gain an understanding of what is happening and therefore are not mentioned here.
Stage 1: Infection of a host epithelial cell by a sporozoite.
Stage 2: Transformation of the sporozoite into the trophozoite.
Stage 3: Syzygy formation.
Stage 4: Gamontocyst formation
Stage 5: Nuclear division
Stage 6: Gametogenesis
Stage 7: Gamete budding
Stage 8: Fertilization
Stage 9: Zygote formation
Stage 10: Spore Wall formation
Stage 11: Meiosis I
Stage 12: Intermediate stage
Stage 13: Meiosis II
Stage 14: Mitosis
Stage 15: Sporogenesis