Science

Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.

Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.

Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.

Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.

Information on these organisms, often called slipper animalcules, their classification, with links to videos, images and many other sites on protists.

Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.

Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.

Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.

Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.

David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.

Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.

Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.

Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.

Illustration and information on this ciliate.

Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.

Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.

Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.

Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.

Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.

Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.

Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.

Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.

General biology of these organisms with photographs and video clips.

Photograph and information on this ciliate.

Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.

Photographs and information on this colonial protist.

Several images.