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

Culms often creeping at base; leaves ciliate at base; spikes 4–5; lower glume awned and the flowering one pointed.

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