Ciliates are found almost everywhere that there is sufficient water for them to move and feed, and are the primary consumers of bacteria in many habitats. Some are parasitic living either inside, or ...

Anyone who has taken high school biology has likely come into contact with a ciliate. The much-studied paramecium is one of 7,000 species of ciliates, a vast group of microorganisms that share a ...

Microscopic ciliates can increase the mobility of poisonous tar substances, PAHs, by up to 100-fold according to a new study. The results open new possibilities for cleaning soil that is ...

Microrobots learn from ciliates Date: February 25, 2016 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to ...

In January 2022, populations of Diadema antillarum, also known as the long-spined sea urchin, throughout the Caribbean Sea began to rapidly and massively decline.

Conjugation (or mating) of ciliates is a unique phenomenon among living beings. They have sex not for reproduction or pleasure — they seek to increase genetic variation.

Ciliates, just like humans, are colonized by a vast diversity of bacteria. Some ciliates and their bacterial symbionts have become friends for life, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...

The mystery killer behind a recent mass die-off of a once-common sea urchin species has been identified as a parasitic microorganism called a ciliate. Long-spined sea urchins (Diadema antillarum ...

Loxophyllum Ciliate Protozoan. Loxophyllum is a predatory protozoan. These single-celled organisms are ciliates, being covered in hair-like structures known as cilia. The cilia beat in synchronized ...

Ciliates, a group of single-celled ciliated eukaryotes, have been studied since the dawn of light microscopy, with over 10,000 species described. Cilia are the key feature of ciliates and ...