division, symbionts
Description:
Dysteria (dist-ear-ee-a) is a hypostome ciliate. Like other hypostomes it favours particular food such as algae. The cell on the right has eaten blue-green (bacterial) algae and red (purple) sulphur bacteria. They can pick up their food using a jaw system made of stout rods capped with teeth. Cilia in this genus are restricted to a broad band running along the lateral margins of the cell. there is also a collection of cilia that form a podite - or attachment structure. This species is distinctive because it contains numerous green symbiotic algae. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Phyllopharyngea
- Phyllopharyngia
- Dysteriida
- Dysteriidae
- Dysteria
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