Rediscovery of Remarkably Rare #Anaerobic Tentaculiferous #Ciliate Genera Legendrea and Dactylochlamys (#Ciliophora: Litostomatea) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370713342_Rediscovery_of_Remarkably_Rare_Anaerobic_Tentaculiferous_Ciliate_Genera_Legendrea_and_Dactylochlamys_Ciliophora_Litostomatea #protists #ciliates #microbes

New #ISEPpapers! Molecular #phylogeny and #taxonomy of three #anaerobic #plagiopyleans (#Alveolata: #Ciliophora), retrieved from two geographically distant localities in Asia and North America https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad015/7233281 #protists #microbes #ciliates #anaerobiosis by @joro

New #ISEPpapers! Enchelyothrix muria n. gen, n. sp., (#Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Spathidiida), an extreme halotroph spathidiid from #MaharlooLake, #Iran: Mahnaz Barmshuri et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0932473923000500 #protists #ciliates #microbes #NewSpecies #microorganisms #halophiles #extremophiles

New #ISEPpapers! Interpreting phylogenetic placements for taxonomic assignment of #environmentalDNA: Isabelle Ewers et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.12990 #protists #ciliates #phylogeny #taxonomy

@bibianaprinoth I study microbes including #bacteria #viruses and #ciliates in the oceans (and any other environment that will have me)

Are you curious about purple photosymbioses? Sebastian Hess and I have written a Quick Guide for Current Biology where we summarize our current knowledge on these very rare symbioses. Free access here: https://t.co/9uHTmhhIzm
#photosymbiosis #symbiosis #purplebacteria #ciliates #pseudoblepharisma #anaerobcieuks

RT protistologists: A comparative ultrastructural study on the nanoscale #extrusomes of #tintinnids (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and their phylogenetic significance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0932473922000906 #protists #ciliates by \@FB_EnvBiodiv

#newpaper #ciliates #neuroscience

Our [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.20.521225v1 |first paper on the behavior of Paramecium], a unicellular swimming organism that spikes! We look at what happens when it hits a little pillar. Often, it simply slips along it, but it sometimes does an “avoiding reaction”: it briefly swims backward, then changes direction. This is triggered by an action potential. We found that this reaction is often delayed: the organism slides on the obstacle, then withdraws.

RT @microonstream@twitter.com

Here, probably Podophrya, belonging to Suctoria, a kind of ciliate which emits these tentacles when it find some attach point or to manipulates its "food". The green ones are Euglenas for which we can also appreciate the flagellum (at ~30sec +/-).

#microscopy #ciliates #life

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/microonstream/status/1607718646939357186

RT @microonstream@twitter.com

Coleps, euglenas, bacteria, Protozoa United and me, want to wish all the best, love, peace and.... beautiful samples.

Thank you all for following and inspiring one year more.

#coleps #ciliates #merrychristmas #wishes #microscopy #life #science

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/microonstream/status/1607486967113027584

Paper alert 🚨

Protists’ microbiomes are constituted by stablished symbionts, ingested microbes and surface-asociated microbes.

The paper below studied bacterial microbiomes associated to natural populations of #Euplotes #Ciliates #MicrobialEukaryotes #protists

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125952
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2022.125952

The potato chip and the bean. A couple of marine ciliates from my saltmarsh creek sample yesterday. There’s not much free info out there in marine ciliates, so if anyone can shed some light on them, let me know!

https://youtu.be/lzEg76GtODA

#marinebiology #marinebiologyuk #northnorfolkcoast #northsea #sea #ocean #biology #wildlife #nature #microscopy #microorganism #ciliate #ciliates

Today marks the end of my first full-length #experiment with #ciliates in the lab of Prof. Schtickzelle, in collaboration with PhD candidate Victor Brans (ELIV - UCLouvain) !

Tilted tubes ??! What could be the reason 🧐 ?

Stay tuned for exciting results !

(picture description: a photography of our experimental setup in a ciliate lab incubator)

Paper alert 🚨

Some #Ciliates infect mosquito #Aedes aegypti larvae (colonizing their head, abdomen, and siphon region). Of these, Vorticella microstoma looks promising for further studies as candidate agent for #biocontrol

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-022-07750-x

#protists #MicrobialEukaryotes

Paper alert 🚨

'Novel insights into molecular mechanisms of vegetative cell cycle and resting cyst formation in Apodileptus cf. visscheri (#Alveolata, Ciliophora)'

https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12958

#protists #MicrobialEukaryotes #Ciliates

More on #Ciliates 🚨
"Group-specific functional patterns of mitochondrion-related organelles shed light on their multiple transitions from mitochondria in ciliated protists"

https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-022-00147-w

#protists #MicrobialEukaryotes #MRO

Paper alert🚨

Doublets have traditionally been considered as developmental anomalies but they may be an adaptation to deal with adverse environments

"Doublets of the unicellular organism #Euplotes vannus (#Alveolata, Ciliophora, Euplotida): the morphogenetic patterns of the ciliary and nuclear apparatuses associated with cell division"

https://doi.org/10.1007/s42995-022-00150-1

#protists #MicrobialEukaryotes #Ciliates

Time to dive into the microcosmos again.

Journey to the Microcosmos: *This Extremely Rare Ciliate Has Only Been Seen Four Times*

📹 https://youtu.be/nVTNsG2_uDs?t=36

#ciliates #eukaryotes #microscopic #nature

Paper alert 🚨
Did you know that some #protists can learn to ignore repetitive stimuli? I didn't! 😲

Rajan et al. explore the behavior of #Stentor (#Ciliates) and found evidence that suggests "it is governed by a two-state stochastic machine whose transition rates are sensitive to the time series properties of the input stimuli."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222017663