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 research, which utilized both Sanger and Illumina sequencing to analyze the 16S rRNA gene, revealed that each ciliate ...

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 ...

ciliate evolution, muscle biochemistry, mammalian reproductive ecology and the molecular biology of human parasites. The biological sciences form the foundation of a number of academic disciplines at ...

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 ...

such as slime molds and at least one ciliate species, possess very few cell types and do not produce tissues or organs that are themselves composed of multiple cell types. Furthermore, animal ...

Twigs – stout, red-brown, glabrous. Buds – ¼” long, ovoid, reddish-brown, bud scales have ciliate margins, has multiple terminal buds. Fruit – ¾-1″ long, enclosed at base in a thick, saucer-like cap ...

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 ...