Sentences with phrase «celled planktonic»

Work by Gonzalo Vidal of the University of Uppsala in Sweden indicates that single - celled planktonic eukaryotes certainly date back to 1.7 billion years B.P. and very likely to at least 2.2 billion years B.P..

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I was struck by the similarities between the pasta shapes shown in Richard Webb's article on their mathematical interpretation (15 October, p 48) and some shells of foraminifera, a type of single - celled marine planktonic animal.

In a study published in Science in June, paleoceanographer Bärbel Hönisch and colleagues at Columbia University examined the remnants of planktonic foraminifera — single - celled creatures with elaborate shells — buried beneath the seafloor off the coast of Africa.

At the early stages of biofilm formation, planktonic cells encounter and transiently adhere to surfaces.