- 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...
-
called trumpet animalcules, are a
genus of filter-feeding,
heterotrophic ciliates,
representative of the heterotrichs. They are
usually horn-shaped, and...
- tintinnids,
which produce loricae or s**** and are the
predominant fossil ciliates. As
first defined by Bütschli in 1889 the
spirotrichs were one of two orders...
-
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...
- understood; many of
their supposed functions are in doubt.
Within the
ciliates group,
numerous extrusomes–primarily trichocysts–are
distributed all across...
- 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...
- Ciliophora, or
ciliates, are a
group of
protists that
utilize cilia for locomotion.
Examples include Paramecium, Stentors, and Vorticella.
Ciliates are widely...
-
epithelium is
further divided into two categories:
ciliated and non-
ciliated (glandular). The
ciliated part of the
simple columnar epithelium has tiny hairs...
