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At the front of the body they possess a crown of hair-like cilia. They locomote by using the crown of cilia (the corona) to propel themselves. Some species walk with head and ... The rotifers from the genus Collotheca live attached to a substrate and collect tiny microbes like bacteria with extremely elongated cilia.
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www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/rotidr.html
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Rotifera phylum of predominantly free-living, microscopic, aquatic or semiterrestrial pseudocoelomates . Each rotifer has a head bearing a crown of cilia, the corona, ... Rotifers possess jaws and are covered with a layer of chitin (the lorica). There is no circulatory system and gas exchange occurs across the body surface.
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www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Rotifera.aspx
www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Rotifera.aspx
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Rotifers range from. 100-1000 pm in length. They possess an anteriorly located ciliated corona used in locomotion and food gathering (Meg- litsch 1972). ...
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doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2000.tb00026.x
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In general, rotifers possess a common body plan; a head with a ciliated corona and a peculiar masticatory organ called the mastax, a trunk and a foot with ...
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0044523108000557
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These have about the same dimensions as the cilia and possess a specific apical region ... rotifer–bacteria symbiosis, bacterial adhesion, cilia-associated ...
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linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0040816601901764
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FINE STRUCTURE OF THE CILIA; OF ROTIFERS; ALBERT I. LANSING, Ph.D., ... The coronal cilia of rotifcrs possess very well developed single rootlets whose transverse periods fade indistinctly in the region of junction with the basal body. These rootlets appear to have a mean maximum diameter of 740 A with a range of;
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jcb.rupress.org/cgi/reprint/9/4/799.pdf
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Rotifers take their name from ... actions of anterior cilia. ... Polychaetes are the only annelids that possess...
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www.wyominghighschoolalumni.org/staff_pages/Dorsey/Test...
www.wyominghighschoolalumni.org/staff_pages/Dorsey/Tests/ap_ch26.htm
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For locomotion and feeding, members of the genus Collotheca use five tufts of relatively long tentacle-like cilia known as setae, surrounding the very large corona. Most rotifers possess chitinous jaws called trophi that are used for grinding ingested food.
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www.olympusmicro.com/micd/galleries/moviegallery/pondsc...
www.olympusmicro.com/micd/galleries/moviegallery/pondscum/rotifera/collotheca/t1/collotheca01.html
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The majority of rotifers possess a foot of variable ... short buccal cilia that contain electron-dense matrix in the axoneme. The function of those cilia is ...
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www.springerlink.com/index/L1743811123XU472.pdf
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