(Phys.org)—Palaeobiologists from the University of Kansas studying samples taken from the mountains of Antarctica have found a ciliate fossil embedded in the wall of a fossilized leech cocoon which was itself embedded in ...
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 common morphology: single-celled ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2011
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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 Marine Microbiology in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 14, 2017
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A microbiome is a community of microorganisms that inhabit an ecological niche. Microbiomes exist in environmental biotopes, for example, a water body or forest soil, as well as in living multicellular host organisms such ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2019
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If Dr. Dolittle could talk to the animals, it's more likely he was a chemical ecologist than a linguist, says marine scientist Mark Hay of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta—at least when it came to talking ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2013
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Ecosystems have a variety of benefits to humans, including food, water and other resources, as well as recreational space. It is therefore important that these systems remain functional and stable—especially in view of ...
Ecology
Oct 18, 2018
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Even bacteria have enemies – in water, for example, single-celled ciliates preferably feed on microbes. The microbes protect themselves against predators by employing a variety of tricks, which the ciliates, in turn, attempt ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 13, 2017
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The Arctic Ocean is experiencing rapid changes due to global warming. It contains complex water masses with unique hydrographic features and zooplankton communities.
Environment
Feb 24, 2023
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An extensive study by Radboud University Nijmegen on excrement and rumen fluids in plant-eating mammals from all over the whole world shows that the ciliates in their guts have evolved in parallel with them. This is the result ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 7, 2014
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A pond in Salzburg has been granted nature conservation status due to its unusually diverse population of ciliates. As the results of an Austrian Science Fund FWF research project show, this small water body is home to an ...
Ecology
Aug 26, 2013
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