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 …

Ciliates are unicellular heterotrophic organisms that play a key role in aquatic planktonic
and benthic food webs. Advances in sedimentary DNA (sed-DNA) analysis offer the …

Aim The present study aimed to investigate the effect of bacterivorous soil protists on plant
growth promoting (PGP) attributes of bacterial species and their co-inoculative impact on …

C.-F. Li, J. Lin, DK Kulhanek, T. Williams, R. Bao, A. Briais, EA Brown, Y. Chen, PD Clift, FS
Colwell, KA Dadd, W.-W. Ding, I. Hernández-Almeida, X.-L. Huang, S. Hyun, T. Jiang, AAP …

Plant growth and productivity depend on the complex and dynamic interaction between the
plant roots and soil microorganisms. At present, the research on rhizosphere associated …

The present investigation aims to study the diversity of ciliates from different habitats in and
around Delhi, India, and the correlation of this diversity with soil quality {agricultural lands …

Scuticociliatosis is an economically important, frequently fatal disease of marine fish in
aquaculture, caused by histophagous ciliated protozoa in the subclass Scuticociliatida of the …

Ciliates (or Ciliophora) are probably the most popular group of protists, with some classroom
lab favorites such as Paramecium spp. These highly conspicuous micro-organisms are …

Heterotrophic protists play a crucial role in plant growth promotion via nutrient cycling and
shift in microbial community composition in the soil ecosystem. Selective predation pressure …

Paramecium is employed as a valuable model organism in various research fields since a
large number of strains with different characteristics of size, morphology, degree of aging …