Ciliate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The ciliates are a group of protists characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to flagella but typically shorter and present in much larger...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliate
Get information, facts, and pictures about Ciliophora at Encyclopedia.com. Make research projects and school reports about Ciliophora easy with credible articles from our FREE, online encyclopedia and dictionary. ... Ciliophora , phylum in the kingdom Protista consisting of the ciliates, or ciliophores,
www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ciliophora.aspx www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ciliophora.aspx
Ciliophora (sil"ē-of'uru) [key], phylum in the kingdom Protista consisting of the ciliates, or ciliophores, complex freshwater or saltwater protozoans that swim by the coordinated beating of their cilia—short, hairlike structures that cover the cell surface.
www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0812249.html
Phylum Ciliophora; As their name suggests, must members of the phylum Ciliophora (they are called ciliates) have great amounts of cilia. Ciliates may also have structures called trichocysts, organelles which can be discharged from the cell.
library.thinkquest.org/27819/ch7_8.shtml
Ciliophora - protozoans that move with cilia ... Click on the image for a larger one and description; For microscopes, we recommend MicroscopeWorld.com ... Return to the main pond water critter page...
www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critter... www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/ciliphora/ciliophora.htm
For the benefit of search engines, the phylum Ciliophora Doflein, 1901 is also known as Ciliata, ciliated protozoa or protists, Infusoria and Animalicules ... Incertae sedis in phylum Ciliophora (7)
ciliateguide.myspecies.info/ ciliateguide.myspecies.info/
  Genetic code-based life ... 7125 Other Ciliophora...
www.speciesaccounts.org/Ciliophora.htm www.speciesaccounts.org/Ciliophora.htm
The Ciliata, or Ciliophora, includes about 7000 known species of some of the most complex single-celled organisms ever. ... Ciliates include some of the largest free-living protists; a few genera may reach two millimeters in length. They are abundant in almost every environment with liquid water: ocean waters,
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html
Ciliophora get their name based on their method of locomotion: they swim with cilia. Cilia are short, hairlike projections of cytoplasm composed of pairs of microtubules surrounded by cell membrane. They line the cell membrane.
microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora
Subphylum Ciliophora ... Six major characteristics aid in distinguishing the Ciliophora from other protozoan groups. Not all of these are entirely unique, but when taken together they are definitely distinctive of ciliates: mouth, ciliation, infraciliature, nuclear apparatus, fission, and reproduction.
www.answers.com/topic/ciliophora-1 www.answers.com/topic/ciliophora-1