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New records of suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria) as epibionts of aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Prosorrhyncha: Nepomorpha) from two regions: Mexico and Eastern Europe [PDF]

, 2011
Here, we provide new records of suctorians (Ciliophora: Suctoria), epibionts of aquatic true bugs (Hemiptera: Prosorrhyncha: Nepomorpha) collected in Ukraine, Belarus and Mexico.
Dovgal, I. V., Marіño-Pérez, Ricardo, Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura   +2 more
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In silico characterization of cysteine-stabilized αβ defensins from neglected unicellular microeukaryotes

BMC Microbiology, 2023
Background The emergence of multi-resistant pathogens have increased dramatically in recent years, becoming a major public-health concern. Among other promising antimicrobial molecules with potential to assist in this worldwide struggle, cysteine ...
Marcus Vinicius Xavier Senra
doaj   +1 more source

Parasites of economically important bivalves from the southern coast of Bahia State, Brazil Parasitos de bivalves de interesse econômico no Litoral Sul do Estado da Bahia, Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2012
This study investigated the parasites of three commercially important bivalve species (Crassostrea rhizophorae, Mytella guyanensis and Lucina pectinata) from the southern coast of Bahia, Brazil.
Gabriela Calvi Zeidan, Mariane dos Santos Aguiar Luz, Guisla Boehs   +2 more
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Local ciliate communities associated with aquatic macrophytes [PDF]

, 2014
This study, based within the catchment area of the River Frome, an important chalk stream in the south of England, compared ciliated protozoan communities associated with three species of aquatic macrophyte common to lotic habitats: Ranunculus ...
Esteban, Genoveva, Yeates, A.M.
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Abundance and species composition of planktonic Ciliophora from the wastewater discharge zone in the Bahía Blanca Estuary, Argentina

Iheringia: Série Zoologia, 2003
The specific composition and abundance variation of the ciliate community from a wastewater discharge zone in the Bahía Blanca estuary, Argentina, were studied all throughout a year, from June 1995 to May 1996.
María Sonia Barría de Cao, Rosa Pettigrosso, Elisa Parodi, Rubén Freije   +3 more
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Comparative Studies on the Polymorphism and Copy Number Variation of mtSSU rDNA in Ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora): Implications for Phylogenetic, Environmental, and Ecological Research

Microorganisms, 2020
While nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA (nSSU rDNA) is the most commonly-used gene marker in studying phylogeny, ecology, abundance, and biodiversity of microbial eukaryotes, mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA (mtSSU rDNA) provides an ...
Yurui Wang, Yaohan Jiang, Yongqiang Liu, Yuan Li, L. Katz, F. Gao, Ying Yan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Two Oxytrichid Ciliates, Cyrtohymena primicirrata and Oxytricha granulifera (Ciliophora: Sporadotrichida: Oxytrichidae) Unknown from Korea [PDF]

, 2013
This study reports the discovery of two oxytrichid ciliates, Cyrtohymena primicirrata (Berger and Foissner, 1987) and Oxytricha granulifera Foissner and Adam, 1983, in Jeju Island, Korea.
Choon Bong Kwon, Mann Kyoon Shin
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Spatiotemporal distribution of protists in the Yarlung Zangbo River, Tibetan Plateau

Water Biology and Security, 2022
Protists, which include eukaryotic algae and protozoa, are crucially important for biogeochemical cycling and the aquatic food web but are sensitive to environmental fluctuations.
Peng Zhang, Jie Xiong, Nanqian Qiao, Ruizhi An, Zhen Da, Wei Miao, Sang Ba   +6 more
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Use of common salt (NaCl) in the control Epistylis sp. in hybrid sorubim

Agrarian, 2020
Epistylis sp. is an emerging parasite in Brazil and is commonly found in surubim Pseudoplatystoma spp. during the initial stages of production and, therefore, requires the establishment of prophylactic and therapeutic measures, aiming at its control ...
Robson Andrade Rodrigues, Milena Souza dos Santos Sanchez, Letícia Emiliani Fantini, André Luiz Nunes, Rodrigo Yutaka Dichoff Kasai, Cristiane Meldau de Campos   +5 more
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Not too big for its mouth: direct evidence of a macrodasyidan gastrotrich preyed in nature by a dileptid ciliate

The European Zoological Journal, 2022
Nearly ubiquitous and usually speciose in most aquatic habitats, the meiofaunal-sized gastrotrichs are recognized as an important component of marine and freshwater ecosystems.
M. A. Todaro, P. Luporini
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