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Description:
Entodiniomorph ciliate from the rumen of domestic cattle. Species such as this are predators, and they reveal the emergence of a multilayered microbial ecosystem within this habitat that - in evolutionary terms - only became available relatively recently. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Litostomatea
- Trichostomatia
- Entodiniomorphida
- Ophryoscolecidae
- Ophryoscolex
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- cc-by-nc
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- D. J. Patterson.
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