In
ciliated protozoans, two of the standard stop codons instead encode glutamine.
Telomere proteins from
ciliated protozoa bind to the single - stranded G - rich DNA extensions at the ends of macronuclear chromosomes.
As
a ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila exhibits nuclear dimorphism: two types of cell nuclei.
Not exact matches
They used two different groups of resident species consisting of aquatic bacteria,
ciliates —
protozoans with hair - like projections called cilia — and rotifers, organisms with cilia - laced mouths and retractable feet.
There's nothing to eat them; bacteria near the surface have to grow fast because they get eaten by
protozoa and
ciliates, but we've not detected those kinds of organisms in the subsurface.