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That’s all for our acid-loving protist of the week. It truly exemplifies everything heavy metal is about: the power of friendship (or in other words, holobionts). Gather with us for the next #MidweekMicrobe, just like microbes in biofilms! lml 🦠 🍄 🧫
Has it lost its mind? Can it see or is it blind? Don’t worry — we’re not judging anyone. We’re just amazed by the protagonist of this week’s #MidweekMicrobe.
Make some noise for a true Ironman: the euglenozoan Euglena mutabilis! 🤘 🦠
📷 Gerd Guenther
Platyproteum noduliferae is a marine alveolate, discovered in the intestinal tract of the host Phascolosoma noduliferum (a peanut worm🥜🪱 ) in the western coast of Hok kaido, Japan by Yokouchi et al #Midweekmicrobe
📷 Yokouchi et al 2022
Time to go back to 2025!⏰ Next time you think about the Cretaceous, don’t just picture T. rex: there were dinoflagellates too! Maybe not as big, but surely just as amazing!🦠 🦖
See you on the next #MidweekMicrobe!
Hey you, hurry up! You're just in time for a trip to the Late Cretaceous🌍 🦖
Sea levels are high and dinosaurs rule the Earth… but we’re here for a different kind of dino.
This #MidweekMicrobe, meet the fossil dinoflagellate Desmocysta hadra!🦠 ⛏️
Eleutheroschizon duboscqi is a marine protococcidian that parasites the polychaete Scoloplos arminger🪱 . It grows epicellularly, enclosed in a two-membrane parasitophorous sac derived from the host cell, that ends in a protein-rich tail #Midweekmicrobe
📷 Valigurová et al. 2015
What a week, huh? For those who missed it, the Iberian Peninsula experienced a power outage this Monday that lasted 12 hours!
Luckily for us, this #MidweekMicrobe brings in an expert in alternative energy generation: the foraminifera Hauerina diversa🌿 ☀️
📷 François Le Coze
Feliç #SantJordi! In Catalunya, today we celebrate love, literature and dragons, exchanging books and roses🐉 🌹 📖 . Honoring the dragon of the legend of Sant Jordi, today’s #Midweekmicrobe is Dracomyxa pallida, a giant ameboid freshwater foraminifer
📷 Wylezich et al. 2014
That's it for this #MidweekMicrobe! We got somewhat dizzy understanding the Tetrahymena thermophila life cycle, but we managed to get our treasure: another piece of amazing protist diversity to share with you!
Check us out next week for more egg-ceptional microbes! 🧫🥚✨
Many of you may be celebrating Easter—if so, happy Easter! 🐣🐰
For today’s #MidweekMicrobe, we’ll go egg hunting with a model organism in biomedicine—a well-known star behind two Nobel-winning discoveries—the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila!
📷 Felix Mikus
This past Monday was World Health Day —which often makes us think of big threats: pandemics, heart disease, climate change...
But what about a microscopic protist that accidentally eats the human brain? Meet 𝘕𝘢𝘦𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘪 🧵 👇 #MidweekMicrobe
📷 CDC
You can check out the article that inspired this thread at https://t.co/dUMf7MiDWZ. Have a happy #MidweekMicrobe Wednesday!
We are glad to announce that #MidweekMicrobe is back! Today we are celebrating the International Children's Book Day coinciding with Hans Christian Andersen's birthday. A creative mind, Hans published the tale The Drop of Water in 1847, available at https://t.co/83buHWybPa.
For more information on Microglomus paxillus, see Tice et al 2023 (https://t.co/xaxeomXskz) from the Brown Lab: @socialprotist #MidweekMicrobe
They hypothesize that the widespread distribution of sporocarpic fruiting within the group is most likely due to its retention from the last common ancestor of Amoebozoa in some taxa and loss in many others. #MidweekMicrobe
Sporocarps consist of one to a few spores atop a noncellular stalk. Tice et al 2023 recently found that sporocarpic fruiting is more prevalent in Amoebozoa than previously known. #MidweekMicrobe
Microglomus paxillus is a Protosteloid amoebae, which are a paraphyletic assemblage of amoeboid protists with Amoebozoa. They can facultatively form a dispersal structure known as a sporocarp (fruiting body) from a single amoeboid cell #MidweekMicrobe
This symbiotic association with Spirotrichonympha aids the termite in wood-feeding & lignocellulose digestion and has contributed to the expansion of termite niches in terrestrial ecosystems. They are inherited vertically through proctodeal trophallaxis. #MidweekMicrobe
Spirotrichonympha, is a genus within the Parabasalia Phylum. They are characterized by their spiral rows of flagella and being obligate hind-gut symbionts of lower termites (Figures from Noda et al 2023) #MidweekMicrobe
Giardia trophozoites absorb their nutrients from the lumen, and are anaerobes. The trophozoites of Giardia and other diplomonads are interesting in their possession of two nuclei, both of which actively transcribe genes (making them a #PerfectPair 🫶) #MidweekMicrobe
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