ciliate

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In this ciliate, that familiar ending system has been rearranged.

From Science Daily • May 7, 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

P. alpìnum, L. Low; spike ovate-oblong; lower glumes strongly ciliate on the back, tipped with a rough awn about their own length.—Alpine tops of the White Mountains, N. H., and high northward.

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