Focus: The systematics and diversity of free-living ciliates, particularly marine and brackish forms in costal waters We are focusing our research on the systematics and diversity of free-living ...

HUNGATE 1,2 successfully cultivated ciliate oligotrich protozoa from the rumen of cattle ; but Sugden 3 was unable to maintain protozoa from the sheep's rumen alive for more than fifteen days.

The authors propose that the unusual mechanism by which ploidy is physiologically regulated in the ciliate MAC genome might have had a fortuitous role during evolution, by providing a mechanism to ...

All majors are strongly encouraged to pursue collaborative research with any of the department’s faculty members who work in areas as diverse as bacterial pathogenesis, ecological impacts of invasive ...

A healthy reef tends to have a lot of herbivores." In the new study, Ritchie and her colleagues report that a single-celled organism called a ciliate, which was identified last year as the cause of a ...

The main focus of this reserach is the marine ciliate fauna of coastal waters of China. Board member, Protistology, 2015 - on going. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, Springer, 2014 - on ...

And these terms just begin to describe the differences botanists have tried to catalog in their rich poetry of obscure adjectives—pinnate, ciliate, barbellate, bearded, canescent, glabrous ...

"We should be walking through grasslands but thanks to overgrazing this Chrysocoma (ciliate) has taken over. It's the curse of the commons in action," said Lebesa. American scientist George Hardin ...