Ciliates are highly divergent unicellular eukaryotic organisms with nuclear dualism and a
highly specialized ciliary pattern. They inhabit all biotopes and play crucial roles in …

Cadmium (Cd) pollution threatens water safety and human health, which has raised serious
public concern. Tetrahymena is a model protozoan, possessing the potential to remediate …

Tetrahymena mitochondrial cox1 barcodes and nuclear SSU r RNA sequences are
particularly effective at distinguishing among its many cryptic species. In a project to learn …

Planarians represent an insufficiently explored group of aquatic invertebrates that might
serve as hosts of histophagous ciliates belonging to the hymenostome genus Tetrahymena …

Tetrahymena comprises over 80 free‐living as well as facultative or obligate histophagous
species parasitizing especially invertebrates and fishes. Because of the comparatively high …

The presence of parasitic ciliates of the hymenostome genus Tetrahymena was examined in
150 mollusks belonging to six bivalve and 13 gastropod species in Slovakia, Central …

Abstract The genus Tetrahymena (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) probably represents the
best studied ciliate genus. At present, more than forty species have been described. All are …

Quantum dots (QDs) are recognized as the excellent fluorescence and photochemical
materials to be applied in bioimaging, biomedical, and solar cell fields. Biosynthesized QDs …

Management of wastewater from diverse sources are important because effluents are
discharged into the aquatic environment after treatment. In this study, the water quality of the …

Water pollution due to heavy metals and water borne pathogen is one of the significant
public health issues for developing countries in particular where safe drinking water supply …