Stentor coeruleus
Stentor coeruleus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
Clade: | SAR |
Clade: | Alveolata |
Phylum: | Ciliophora |
Class: | Heterotrichea |
Order: | Heterotrichida |
Family: | Stentoridae |
Genus: | Stentor |
Species: | S. coeruleus
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Binomial name | |
Stentor coeruleus Ehrenberg, 1830[1]
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Stentor coeruleus is a
Stentoridae which is characterized by being a very large ciliate
that measures 0.5 to 2 millimetres when fully extended.
S. coeruleus specifically appears as a very large trumpet. It contains a macronucleus that looks like a string of beads that are contained within a ciliate that is blue to blue-green in color. It has the ability to contract into a ball through the contraction of its many myonemes .[2]
Stentor coeruleus is known for its regenerative abilities.[3] When this organism is cut in half, each half is able to regenerate a cell that has its normal anatomy provided that each cut part includes some of the macro-nucleus.[4] It feeds by means of
cilia
that carry food into the gullet.
DNA
The
introns are unusually small, only 15 or 16 nucleotides long.[5]
Reproduction
S. coeruleus is capable of
binary fission.[6]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stentor coeruleus.
- ^ "Protist Images: Stentor coeruleus". Protist.i.hosei.ac.jp. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Rotkiewicz, Piotr. "Stentor - Droplet Photo Gallery". Droplet - Microscopy of the Protozoa.
- S2CID 89792744.
- PMID 25202864.
- PMID 28190732.
- ^ "Stentor - microbewiki". Microbewiki.kenyon.edu. Retrieved 9 January 2019.