Sentences with phrase «living ciliates»
Tetrahymena is a genus of free - living ciliates that can also switch from commensalistic to pathogenic modes of survival.
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According to their study in The ISME Journal this alga lives in symbiosis within a unicellular organism, a ciliate, which measures around a hundred micrometers and makes a calcareous shell.
Typical of ciliates, T. thermophila differentiates its genome into two functionally distinct types of nuclei, each specifically used during the two different stages of the life cycle.