This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 31430077, 91131013, and 31272285). Many thanks are given to Prof. Weibo Song (Ocean University of China), for his indispensable advice during the preparation of the manuscript.
Ciliates are one of the oldest living eukaryotic unicellular organisms, widely distributed in the waters around the world. As a typical marine oligotrich ciliate, Strombidium sulcatum plays an important role in marine...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31272285,41276139);King Saud University Deanship of Scientific Research(Research Group Project No.RGP-083);Special Foundation B of President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y25102EN00)
The well-known ciliate, Mesodinium Stein, 1863, is of great importance to marine microbial food webs and is related to the "red tides". However, it is possibly one of the most confusing ciliate taxa in terms of its ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41006086,31272285);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY13C040005);the King Saud University,Deanship of Scientific Research,Research Group Project(No.RGP-VPP-083);the K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
The characteristics and infraciliature of a new euplotid ciliate, Euplotes qingdaoensis n. sp., discovered from the coastal waters of Jiaozhou Bay, northern China, were studied using live observation and silver impreg...