The Tintinnid Lorica

The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for Marine Plankton

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 17-41

  Agatha, Sabine ^a   Laval Peuto, Michèle ^b   Simon, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids ^*  (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lorica construction, requiring lorica material and somatic ciliature; Lorica formation, after cell division, the proter produces its own lorica; Lorica sedimentation; Phenotypic plasticity of loricae, in cultured species; Somatic ciliature, except anteriormost, cilia hidden by the lorica; Texture of the lorica wall, distinguished from the lorica structure; The tintinnid lorica; Tintinnid loricae, the "agglomerated" and "hyaline" ones; Tintinnids uniqueness, in building solid shells; Tintinnids, in creating new loricae on different occasions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887167377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118358092.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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