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Introduction to the Ciliata - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html
Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology. |
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Protist Images: Ciliophora - http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/CiliophoraE.html
Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese. |
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Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia - http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/ciliphora/ciliophora.htm
Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them. |
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Ciliates - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/cilidr.html
Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species. |
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Paramecium - http://www.101science.com/paramecium.htm
Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists. |
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Paramecium - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/articles/param1.html
General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips. |
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Tetrahymena - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Tetrahymena.html
Information on this ciliated freshwater protozoan, with a video showing organisms swimming, dividing and moving their cilia from the Microbiology Video Library. |
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Carchesium - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/junimg2.html
Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing. |
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The Ciliate Resource Archive - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~ciliates/classification/genera.html
Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level. |
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Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan03/fol.html
Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan. |
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Didinium the Master Feeder. - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/dingley3.html
Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself. |
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Suctoria - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar03/jmcsuctoria.html
Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences. |
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Amphileptus - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec00/amphileptus.html
Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans. |
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http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html
Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst. |
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Dileptus at Dinnertime - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov00/dinnertime.html
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores. |
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Dessert for Dileptus - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr01/dileptus2.html
Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate. |
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Actinobolina Being Vorax - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct01/actinobolina.html
Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way. |
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Ciliophora - http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora
Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology. |
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Blepharisma - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/jhblepharisma.html
Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos. |
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A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25 - http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/drcilia.html
David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates. |