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    Vorticella is a genus of bell-shaped ciliates that have stalks to attach themselves to substrates. The stalks have contractile myonemes, allowing them...
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  • protozoon Vorticella campanula is found in freshwater ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams with aquatic vegetation. It has a global distribution. Vorticella campanula...
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    Vorticella convallaria is a species of ciliates. It is the type species of the genus Vorticella. It resembles V. campanula, but differs in being somewhat...
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  • Vorticella convallaria is a species of ciliates. It forms part of the V. convallaria species complex. V. citrina is lemon yellow to light green in colour...
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  • Ctenophila vorticella is a species of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails...
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    Rotifers, termed wheel animalcules. Stentor, termed trumpet animalcules. Vorticella, and other peritrichs, termed bell animalcules. The concept seems to have...
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    particles from their environment. Examples range from the microscopic Vorticella up to the basking shark, one of the largest fishes, and the baleen whales...
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    two types of tintinnids and a possible ancestral suctorian. A fossil Vorticella has been discovered inside a leech cocoon from the Triassic period, about...
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  • similar genus Carchesium in which the stalks are contractile like those in Vorticella. Roberto Júnio Pedroso Dias, Sthefane D`Ávila and Marta D`Agosto (2006)...
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    Syncopacma cinctella (Clerck, 1759) Synonyms Phalaena vorticella Scopoli, 1763 Syncopacma vorticella (Scopoli, 1763) Phalaena cinctella Clerck, 1759 Phalaena...
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    utilize cilia for locomotion. Examples include Paramecium, Stentors, and Vorticella. Ciliates are widely abundant in almost all environments where water can...
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  • Llyn Celyn Inverted-bell beaker from Atting during the Beaker culture Vorticella protozoa Bell krater Ashoka Bell ( lotus flower shaped 250 BCE) "Modern...
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  • is a genetic code used by the nuclear genome of the peritrich ciliates Vorticella and Opisthonecta.    AAs = FFLLSSSSYYEECC*WLLLAPPPPHHQQRRRRIIIMTTTTNN...
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  • one to migrate to a better place. Vorticella reverts to a telotroch note time stop in lower righthand corner. Vorticella sp. telotroch Another definition...
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    lenses, constructed basic optical microscopes and drew protozoa, such as Vorticella from rain water, and bacteria from his own mouth. 1665: Robert Hooke discovered...
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    either solitary or produce branched colonies. A few secrete a lorica. Vorticella is one of the best-known genera. Stalks may be as long as 2 mm, and in...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    macroalgae (e.g. Enteromorpha intestinalis, Ulothrix) and protozoans (e.g. Vorticella, Zoothamnium sp.) to attach themselves. Within two to three weeks, the...
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  • structure found in some eukaryotic single-celled organisms, particularly Vorticella. It consists of a series of protein filaments that shorten rapidly upon...
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    O.F. Müller and described in his Animalcula Infusoria under the name Vorticella nasuta. In 1859, Samuel Friedrich Stein moved the species to the newly...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    (Nassula) Oligohymenophorea (Ichthyophthirius, Paramecium, Tetrahymena, Vorticella) Parablepharismea (Parablepharisma) Phyllopharyngea (Chilodonella, Tokophrya)...
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    ancestors, causing one ability to be lost. Paramecium caudatum (Ciliophora) Vorticella (Ciliophora) (left) Plasmodium falciparum (Apicomplexa) in blood Eimeria...
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    vermicelli, pasta, for the actual word Darwin and Shelley used, which was vorticella, a miniscule [sic] wheel animal. This was a major mistake or flub. As...
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    1983 Spinivorticella Jankowski, 1993 Tucolesca  Lom in Corliss, 1979 Vorticella Linnaeus, 1767 Vorticellides Foissner, Blake, Wolf, Breiner & Stoeck,...
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