Entrapment of ciliates at the water-air interface.

The importance of water-air interfaces (WAI) on microorganism activities has been recognized by many researchers. In this paper, we report a novel phenomenon: the entrapment of ciliates Tetrahymena at the WAI. We first characterized the behavior of cells at the interface and showed that the cells�...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Ferracci, Hironori Ueno, Keiko Numayama-Tsuruta, Yohsuke Imai, Takami Yamaguchi, Takuji Ishikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3794946?pdf=render