ciliate
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Instead of studying cells in a lab dish, the scientists used advanced computer modeling to analyze how molecular networks inside ciliate and mammalian cells respond to different patterns of stimulation.
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
P. convex-obtuse then exp. strigosely silky with long fibrils, rufescent, edge at first involute, strigosely ciliate; g. adnato-decur.; s. stuffed, downy, white. var. eriocephala, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee