Protists ciliates

These contrasting observations may perhaps be reconciled by admitting that warm-water marine organisms have adapted to the Antarctic. This has received circumstantial evidence from the finding of the same terpenoids in ciliate protists, Euplotes spp., fi m the Red Sea and the Antarctic. These... 

Some animal tissues and some unicellular organisms are rich in ether lipids, in which one of the two acyl chains is attached to glycerol in ether, rather than ester, linkage. The ether-linked chain may be saturated, as in the alkyl ether lipids, or may contain a double bond between C-l and C-2, as in plasmalogens (Fig. 10-9). Vertebrate heart tissue is uniquely enriched in ether lipids about half of the heart phospholipids are plasmalogens. The membranes of halophilic bacteria, ciliated protists, and certain invertebrates also contain high proportions of... 

Eoissner W. (1987) Soil protozoa fundamental problems ecological significance adaptations in ciliates and Testaceans Bioindicators and Guide to the Literature. Prog. Protist. 2, 69-212. 

Protists are larger, more complex single-celled organisms than bacteria. Many of the autotrophic protists are key producers in the intertidal environments while some of the heterotrophic forms are important consumers. Diatoms and ciliates are two common types of coastal protists. 

Symbiosis between algae and protists is widespread, for example, among marine and freshwater planktonic ciliates and large foraminifera. In some cases, the whole cell of different groups of algae lives as endosymbionts in the host,... 

ViUalobo, E., Morin, L., Moch, C., Lescasse, R., Hanna, M., Xiao, W., and Baroin-Tourancheau, A. (2002). A homologue of CROC-1 in a ciliated protist (Sterkielia histriomuscorum) testifies to the ancient origin of the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme variant family. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19, 39-48. 

Johnson, M.D., Tengs, T., Oldach, D.W., Delwiche, C.F., Stoecker, D.K. (2004). Highly divergent SSU rRNA genes found in the marine ciliates Myrionecta rubra and Mesodinium pulex. Protist 155, 347-359. 

Protozoan diversity converging estimates of the global number of free-living ciliate species. Protist 149,29-37. 

The area around the mouth in many invertebrates and some protists. It sometimes assists in food collecting. Examples are the spirally ciliated groove around the mouth of some dilate protozoans and the first segment of the earthworm. 

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