#ciliate

[niqvassieart]

microscope life drawings - tardigrade and colony of Vorticella ciliates.

#animal art #microscopy #microscope #ciliate #vorticella #life drawing #sketch #tardigrade #water bear #pencil #drawing #studies #artists on tumblr #traditional art #protist #protists #microorganisms

[biomorphi]

i found another specimen of a super rare organism yesterday!

this is a rare and remarkable ciliate, a single-celled organism called Metopus verrucosus.

a few neat facts about it:

it’s an anaerobic organism! this means it prefers to live without oxygen

it lives deep in the mud of sulfur- & methane-rich bodies of saltwater. this one was found in the salt marsh estuary on the side of the garden state pkwy in south New Jersey!

it couldn’t survive in these noxious conditions by itself, though! the fuzzyness covering it’s cell is actually a type of bacteria that symbiotically lives on M. verrucosus.

this bacteria has the ability to metabolize sulfur and/or methane, processing these volatile stinky chemicals and turning it into energy, that it then shares with M. verrucosus!

i’m the only known person with this kind of footage of M. verrucosus! the paper The Santa Barbara Basin is an Oasis of Symbiosis has the only other photo i’ve seen of this organism, and it’s actually an HVEM (electron microscope) photo of a cross-section of the cell showing it’s endosymbiotic bacteria.

here are some more photos i took of other specimens:

#germ #microbiology #microbe #microorganism #bacteria #ciliate #microcosmos #protozoa #biology #swamp #science #science art #🌵

[cuicuit]

(Stentor)

I think it's hungry. It seems a bit like a vacuum cleaner...

#stentor #microscopic universe #microscopic life #microscope #microbiology #microorganisms #biology #little animals #vacuum #ciliate #protists #nature #hungry

[moramaisisart]

Lacrymaria olor. It's a predatory ciliate and it's creeping into your room while you're sleeping :)

#traditional art #traditional painting #traditional illustration #gouache painting #horror art #ciliate #my art #gouache #creature art #creepy art #horror artist #surreal horror

[microbe-mage]

This is the second time looking at this sample, it had definitely became less active, though there were many bacteria.

#saddly everything is frozen now so collecting samples will be harder #but i am planning on looking at my houseplants' soil #so stay tuned for that! #microbe #microbes #microscope #protozoa #protists #plants #lichen #leaf litter #ciliate #paramecium #bacteria #winter #eukaryotes #fungi

[snezztheferret]

Spirostomum sp., a type of ciliate. 100x

#microscopy #ciliate #happy little worms #worm

[nostimroads]

X-X-X    X-X-X    X-X-X

Don’t shed a tear for this lacrymaria olor (swan’s tear) and gothic architecture stimboard for anon

#stimboard #stimming #lacrymaria olor #swan's tear #lacrymaria olor stimboard #gothic architecture #gothic architecture stimboard #gothic #goth #red #castle #architecture #graveyard #moon #forest #ciliates

[coulsonlives]

I love this. Godspeed my little ciliate buddy!

#this is a beautiful video!! it's so calming and relaxing and interesting. worth the watch :) #esp the part about the definition of life #microorganisms #ciliates #loxodes magnus #journey to the microcosmos #death ment cw #youtube #hank green

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Ciliate Hoarmoss Hedwigia ciliata Hedwigiaceae

Photographs taken on October 22, 2022, at Marmora and Lake, Ontario, Canada.

#wildflowers of southern ontario #moss #Ciliate Hoarmoss #Hoarmoss #Hedwigia ciliata #Hedwigiaceae #Hedwigia #Marmora and Lake #Marmora #Ontario #Canada

[themslash]

when i was checking on my recent personal post tumblr recommended another one from months ago when i was posting about a didinium ingesting a paramecium for some reason? in a (to me) quite disturbing illustration. any way here's a more disturbing illustration of didinium ingesting a paramecium

#vesselage #enjoy #i tend to forget that the cilia in ciliates means theyre really hairy? #its fucked up to see the cilia but i do like it. its like im there #just like in spore

[cuicuit]

Stentor

One of the biggest single-celled creatures. It is fixed to an alguae when it doesn't swim, and adopt a trumpet-like shape. It can contract itself (I've seen some of them completely vanish when they decide to contract behind an alguae). Its "mouth" is equipped with ring of cilia, which perform a speed rotational movement to aspire water and even your soul (you can clearly see this one absorbing a small organic detritus).

I personally call them : Trumpets of Apocalypse 😊

#stentor #ciliate #ciliophora #alveolata #protists #microorganisms #microscope #microscopic life #microbiology #little animals #trumpet #creature of satan #soul eater #biology #trumpets of apocalypse

[championsofmyheart]

one down one to go

#went fine but my god my hand hurts that was 2 hrs of straight writing #anyone want to hear about ciliates and their weird ass genetic system. its so weird i love them #molecular genetics time #fuckery

[microbe-mage]

From a lichen and leaf litter sample taken on 01/06/2023 at 10:40. Notes from 01/09/2023 at 7:48 PM.

#microbe #microbes #microscope #protozoa #ciliate #animal #invertabrate #rotifer #coleps #fungi #lichen #leaf litter #january #winter

[sciencesolutions]

#ciliates #protozoans #pseudopodia #capture #prey #contractile #vacuole #water #flagella #locomotion #nuclei #science #solutions

[thegodhand7]

Euplotes

#BioMar #ciliates #protists #protistology #sea life #marine zoology

[kamanori]

#ciliates #drawing