- on
other ciliates. Some
ciliates parasitize animals,
although only one species,
Balantidium coli, is
known to
cause disease in humans.
Ciliates reproduce...
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ingest other protists,
including algae and
other ciliates.
Bursaria are the largest-sized
colpodean ciliates.
Bursaria is the sole
genus in the
family Bursariidae...
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called trumpet animalcules, are a
genus of filter-feeding,
heterotrophic ciliates,
representative of the heterotrichs. They are
usually horn-shaped, and...
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Carchesium is a
genus of
usually colonial peritrich ciliates in the
Vorticellidae with a
spirally contractile stalk. The
inverted bell-shaped
cells have...
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Uronema is a
genus of
ciliates in the
family Uronematidae.
Histoire naturelle des zoophytes. Infusoires:
comprenant la
physiologie et la classification...
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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...
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epithelium is
further divided into two categories:
ciliated and non-
ciliated (glandular). The
ciliated part of the
simple columnar epithelium has tiny hairs...
- Ciliophora, or
ciliates, are a
group of
protists that
utilize cilia for locomotion.
Examples include Paramecium, Stentors, and Vorticella.
Ciliates are widely...
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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...
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Glaucoma is a
genus of
freshwater ciliates in the Oligohymenop****a.
Cells in this
genus are
between 30–150 μm long, and have
three membranelles (structures...
