- on
other ciliates. Some
ciliates parasitize animals,
although only one species,
Balantidium coli, is
known to
cause disease in humans.
Ciliates reproduce...
-
ingest other protists,
including algae and
other ciliates.
Bursaria are the largest-sized
colpodean ciliates.
Bursaria is the sole
genus in the
family Bursariidae...
- well-known
groups of protists: apicomplexans,
dinoflagellates and
ciliates. The
ciliates (Ciliophora) are a
highly diverse (>8,000 species) and probably...
-
zoologist C. T. von
Siebold proposed that the
bodies of
protozoa such as
ciliates and
amoebae consisted of
single cells,
similar to
those from
which the...
-
organisms of the
ciliate group and have been
characterized as the "white rats" of the
phylum Ciliophora.
Paramecium were
among the
first ciliates to be observed...
- Ciliophora, or
ciliates, are a
group of
protists that
utilize cilia for locomotion.
Examples include Paramecium, Stentors, and Vorticella.
Ciliates are widely...
-
photosynthetic organisms.
Almost all
sequenced mitochondrial genomes of
ciliates and
apicomplexa are linear. The
mitochondria almost all
carry mtDNA of...
- understood; many of
their supposed functions are in doubt.
Within the
ciliates group,
numerous extrusomes–primarily trichocysts–are
distributed all across...
-
epithelium is
further divided into two categories:
ciliated and non-
ciliated (glandular). The
ciliated part of the
simple columnar epithelium has tiny hairs...
- (sebum), enzyme,
digestive juices, sweat, etc. Some
epithelial cells are
ciliated,
especially in
respiratory epithelium, and they
commonly exist as a sheet...
