ciliate
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Spirostomum ambiguum is a giant single-celled ciliate, named for the fringe of hairlike cilia it uses to swim.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The probable culprit is a disease-causing ciliate parasite that brings with it a fast death - perhaps the same one that has wreaked havoc on sea urchin populations in the Caribbean.
From Reuters ● May 24, 2023
One ciliate can consume up to 1 million virus particles a day, he and his colleagues wrote in PNAS.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2023
For now, here’s a cute scuticociliate, a scuttle-y little ciliate that can jump fairly impressive distances.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2013
Rather stout, flexuose, creeping at base; leaves rather distant, decurrent on both sides, ciliate-dentate, the lower lobe obovate, obtuse, slightly convex, the upper cordate, acute, concave; perianth densely ciliate; capsule large, roundish-ovate, reddish-brown.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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