Protists By Taxon

Ciliates

• The Ciliated Protozoa (Phylum Ciliophora)
  

Coccolithophores:

• Emiliania huxleyi and other coccolithophores
  
  
• Remote sensing of coccolithophore blooms
  
  • coccolithophore blooms in the Celtic Sea:
    • Monday, May 18, 1998
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      Image collected at NERC Satellite Receiving Station, Dundee, Scotland, UK:
      http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/SEAWIFS/
      S1998138130801.L1A_HDUN.UK.France.Spain.60N.40N.20W.10E.jpg
      
      
    • Coccolithophorid blooms in the Bering Sea
      Saturday, April 25, 1998
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      Image collected at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks:
      http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/SEAWIFS/
      S1998115235801.L1A_HUAF.66N.51N.172W.150W.AlbersConicEqualArea.BeringSea.jpg
      
      
    • Earlier this summer, trillions of calcite (limestone) coated phytoplankton, known as coccolithophores, appeared in the waters off the coast of Maine:
      http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?17930
      
      
    • Brightly colored waters in the Black Sea give evidence of the growth of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton, which contain chlorophyll and other pigments that reflect light different ways, producing the colorful displays:
      http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?19484
      
      
    • The Barents Sea features a striking coccolithophore bloom in this image acquired August 22, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite:
      http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?19210
      
      
    • Since late March 2003, a phytoplankton bloom has beenoccurring off the western coast of South Africa:
      http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?25426
      
      
      
      

Chlamydomonas:

For information on Chlamydomonas, see:

• www.biology.duke.edu/chlamy/
• The Chlamydomonas teaching center:
  http://biology.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/ChlamyTeach/chlamymain.htm

Here you will find a listing of the strains available, methods and educational material, links to colleagues and news of meetings, and the latest updates on the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome project, including the data bases for searches.

Foraminifera:

• Article:
  
  
  • Benthic - Freshwater Foraminiferans Revealed by Analysis of Environmental DNA Samples, Holzmann, Habura, Giles, Bowser, and Pawlowski. J. Eukaryotic Microbiology 50: 135-139.
    
    
  • Planktonic
    
    
    • Fig. 1 - Spero (PDF)
      
    • Fig. 2 - Spero (PDF)
      
    • Figure Legion (MSWord)
      
    • Foraminifera Summary (MSWord)

    
    

Radiolaria and Acantharia:

• Article:
  
  • Radiolaria and Acantharia