Ciliates - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Ciliates are unicellular organisms belonging to the phylum Ciliophora that utilize cilia for locomotion and possess complex oral ciliature for feeding; they have somatic polyploid macronuclei and generative …
Ciliates - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Ciliates are extremely versatile organisms and display an enormous functional diversity as key elements of pelagic food webs, acting as predators of bacteria, algae, other protists and even some metazoans.
Ciliate - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
147.2.3 Ciliates Ciliates (phylum Ciliophora, kingdom Chromista) are unicellular organisms that utilize cilia for locomotion and complex oral ciliature for feeding; possess somatic, polyploid macronuclei, …
Ciliate - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
D. Ciliates 1. Balantidium coli Description and lifecycle. Balantidium coli is a large ciliate in the phylum Ciliophora. Trophozoites are ovoid, 30 to 150 by 150 by 25 pm, and with a subterminal tubular …
Ciliate - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
2.3 Ciliophora - the ciliates The ciliates form an extremely large group and are the most specialized and complicated of the protozoans. They are characterized by the arrangement of cilia in an ordered …
Ciliophora - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Ciliates Ciliophora is one protistan lineage that was grouped together historically and is still recognized as monophyletic. Cilia are present during some stage of the life cycle in all ciliates, and are arranged …
Functional diversity of aquatic ciliates - ScienceDirect
Oct 1, 2017 · Abstract This paper first reviews the concept of functional diversity in general terms and then applies it to free-living aquatic ciliates. Ciliates are extremely versatile organisms and display an …
PCNA's dual legacy in ciliates: Conserved replication scaffold and ...
Aug 1, 2025 · Studying ciliates thus bridges mechanistic insights across eukaryotes, revealing how dynamic genome reprogramming and nuclear differentiation exploit PCNA's scaffold versatility, while …
Ciliates — Protists with complex morphologies and ambiguous early ...
Sep 1, 2015 · Ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora) are morphologically extremely diverse in comparison with most other protists (Dunthorn and Katz, 2008, Lynn, 2008). Species and higher taxa are primarily …
Symbiotic microbes from ciliates: functional and molecular interaction ...
Protists harbor bacteria, fungi, algae, and viruses as popular symbiotic initiators in evolutionary history. Among protists, ciliates have repeatedly been reported to have ecto- and endosymbiotic …