ciliate

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Earlier work led by Gunawardena found that a single-cell ciliate showed avoidance behavior, not unlike the actions observed in animals that encounter unpleasant stimuli.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

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 Gray, Asa