ABSTRACTS FROM SECTION MEETINGS 2002

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The Society of Protozoologists

54th Annual Meeting

Salt Lake City, Utah
May 18 & 19, 2002


Zhu, Guan   Hutner Award Lecture Hunting Genes and Dissecting Their Functions Associated with the Fatty Acid and/or Polyketide Biosynthesis in Cryptosporidium parvum

de Jonckheere, Johan F.   Past Vice-President's Address A century of research on the amoeboflagellate genus Naegleria

Ciliate Genome Symposium

Brown, J.M., Gao, Y., Thazhath, R., Fine, N.A., Pearlman, R.E. & Gaertig, J.   Involvement of OSM6/IFT52 Homolog, RFT1, in Tetrahymena Ciliary Biogenesis: A Case of Methodological Synergy Between Reverse Genetics and EST Projects

Cassidy-Hanley, D., Smith, H., Bisharyan, Y., Hamilton, E., Orias, E & Bruns, P.   Deletions: A Guide to the Physical and Genetic Relationship between the Chromosomes in the Micronucleus and Macronucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila

Hamilton, E., Orias, E., Bruns, P., Cassidy-Hanley, D. & Merriam, V.   Physically Relating Maps of the Germline and Expressed Genomes of Tetrahymena thermophila

Mochizuki, K. & Gorovsky, M.A.   A Piwi-related Gene, TWI1, is Essential for Differentiation of the Somatic Macronucleus in Tetrahymena thermophila

Poster

Castilho, T.M., dos santos, G.M., Shaw, J.J. & Floeter-Winter, L.M.   Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Coding Sequence is able to Distinguish Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis and L. (V.) guyanensi

Droste, R., Murphy, E.M. & Epstein, S.S.   Correlation of Morphological and Genetic Data to Investigate the Species Concept in Ciliated Protozoa

Galanopoulou, D. & Leondartis, G.   Wortmannin inhibits phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate synthesis and enhances lysosomal enzyme release in Tetrahymena

Li, Y., Marchewak, M.J., Keithly, J.S. & Zhu, G.   Partial Functional Analysis using Recombinant Cryptosporidium parvum Fatty Acid Synthase Proteins Expressed in Escherichia coli

McLaughlin, N.B., McCutcheon, S.M. & Buhse, Jr., H.E.   Analysis of the Cytoskeleton of the Oral Apparatus of the Polymorphic Ciliate, Tetrahymena vorax

Murphy, E.M., Droste, R. & Epstein, S.   Resolution of Closely Related Species of the Marine Ciliate Geleia Using Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Sequences

Oral Presentations

Amaral Zettler, L.A., Silberman, J.D., O'Kelly, C.J., Nerad, T.A. & Sogin, M.L.   A Phylogeny of Heterolobosean Amoebae from Acidic and Anaerobic Environments

Amit, Z., Wyder, M.A., Keely, S., Baughman, R.P. & Kaneshiro, E.S.   Sterol Recycling in the Lung Could Explain the Presence of Pneumocystis Sterols in the Absence of Organisms in Human Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid

Antipa, G.A. & Denetclaw, Jr., W.F.   The Mitochondria of Ciliates with Particular Reference to the Scuticociliatida

Bischoff, P.J.   An Analysis of the Abundance, Diversity and Patchiness of Terrestrial Gymnamoebae in Relation to Soil Depth and Precipitation Events Following a Drought in Southeastern U.S.A.

Coats, D.W., Cooney, S.K. & Park, M.G.   Parasitisim of Dinoflagellates: Variation in Survival, Generation Time, and Specificity of Amoebophrya strains

Gwaltney, C.L. & Rogerson, A .   Do Amoebae Have a Unique Trophic Role in Aquatic Ecosystems?

Finlay, B.J., Brown, S., Clarke, K.J., Esteban, G.F., Olmo, J.L., Smirnov, A.V. & Vickerman, K.   Aspects of soil protozoa on a grassland farm

Hufnagel, L.A., Peddi, P., Surapaneni, V., Kumar, A., Millard, S. & Peckham, J.   Rhode Island Coastal Micrograzers ©, a new web site about cilioprotists of Rhode Island

Kloetzel, J.A & Butler, M.D.   Cagein, a Novel Cytoskeletal Protein in Euplotes: Sequence Analysis Suggests an Assembly-disassembly Mechanism

Langlois, G.A.   Response of an Intertidal Microbial Community to Petroleum Hydrocarbons at a Bioremediation Site on Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay

Lee, J.J., Olea, R., Cevasco, M., Ponchon, X., Correia, M., Shpigel, M. & Pawlowski, J.   A Marine Dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp, From the Benthos of a Mariculture Sedimentation Pond in Eilat, Israel

Leick, V.   Chemosensory behavior and cyclic GMP-dependant protein kinase (PKG) in the ciliary membrane of Tetrahymena thermophila

Lynn, D.H. & Strueder-Kypke, M.C.   Phylogenetic Position of Three Unusual Ciliates (Phylum Ciliophora) Endosymbiotic in Echinoderms (Phylum Echinodermata)

McCutcheon, S.M., McLaughlin, N.B. & Buhse Jr., H.E.   Characterization of Cytoskeletal, Calcium-Binding Proteins in Vorticella convallaria

Millership, J. & Zhu, G.   Cryptosporidium parvum Possesses Two Types of Replication Protein A

Moran, D.M., Gast, R.J., Dennett, M.R. & Caron, D.A.   The Identification of a New Dinoflagellate From the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Pylawka, S. & Buhse Jr., H.E.   Protein Synthesis and Telotroch Formation in Vorticella convallaria

Rothschild, L.J., Purcell, D., Rogoff, D. & Wilson, C.   The Indirect Effect of UV on Protists: Good News?

Ryals, P.E.   Inositol Isomer Composition of Tetrahymena vorax and Evidence for a Novel (1D)chiro- to myo-Inositol Epimerase

Saldarriaga, J.F., McEwan, M.L., Fast, N.M., Taylor, F.J.R. & Keeling, P.J.   Multiple Protein Phylogenies Show that Oxyrrhis marina and Perkinsus marinus are Early Branches of the Dinoflagellate Lineage

Schuster, F.L., Dunnebacke, T.H., Glaser, C., Vugia, D., Bakardjiev, A., Azimi, P., Maddux-Gonzales, M. & Visvesvara, G.S.   Environmental Isolation of Balamuthia mandrillaris Associated with a Case of Amebic Encephalitis

Silberman, J.D., Collins, A.J., Girshwin, L.-A. & Roger, A.J.   Incertae Sedis No More: The Phylogenetic Affinity of Ellobiospsida (And the Razing of Dinophycea)

Simpson, A.G.B.   A Molecular and Morphological Examination of Kinetoplastid Phylogeny

Stromgren Allen, N., Collings, D., Siegel, A., Grzankowski, K., Johannes, E. & Bisson, M.A.   Statolith Movement in Response to Gravistimulation in the Chara Rhizoid

Williams, K., Doak, T. & Herrick, G.   Chromatid Breakage and Telomere Formation During Macronuclear Development of the 81-MAC Chromosome Family in the Ciliated Protozoa, Oxytricha trifallax and O. fallax

Yarbrough, D.N., Basselin-Eiweida, M. & Kaneshiro, E.S.   Can Pneumocystis Methylate the C-24 Position of Sterols Scavenged from the Host?

Zackroff, R.V. & Hufnagel, L.A.   Kinetic Studies on Latrunculin-induced Anti-actin Drug Resistance in Tetrahymena thermophila



The Society of Protozoologists

East Coast Section

10th East Coast Protozoology Conference

June 8-10, 2002


Anderson, O.R.   A Biocomplexity Model of Protistan Communities in Soils and Marsh Substrata with an Emphasis on the Sarcodines

Armstrong, T.-N. & Coats, D.W.   Influence of Suspended Solids and Host Diversity on Dinoflagellate Parasitism

Bell, A.J., Awan, A. & Satir, P.   A SEC7-Related Protein in Tetrahymena

Brothers, A.B., Hill, B.F. & Chapman, G.B.   Cyrtos Ultrastructure in Zosterograptus sp. (Ciliophora, Nassophora)

Clamp, J.C.   Ecology and Geographic Variation in Lagenophrys cochinensis (Ciliophora, Peritricha, Lagenophryidae), a Widley Distributed Ectosymbiont of Wood-boring, Marine Isopods

Dolan, M.F.   Speciation of Stephanonympha (Calonymphidae: Cristamonadida)

Khan, N.A.   Genotypic, Phenotypic, Biochemical and Physiological Differentiation of Pathogenic and Non-pathogenic Acanthamoeba

Khan, N.A.   Role of Mannose Binding Protein in the Pathogenesis of Acanthamoeba

Miller, J.J. & Coats, D.W.   An Ultrastructural Study of Amoebophrya sp. Dinospores and the Early Infection Process

Réveiller, F.L. & Marciano-Cabral, F.   Development of an Immunocapture-PCR Assay to Detect Pathogenic Neagleria fowleri Amoebae in Environmental Water Samples

Ribblett, S.G., Coats, D.W. & Palmer, M.A.   The Functional Significance of Protists in the Decomposition of Stream Leaf Litter

Rosetta, C.H. & McManus, G.B.   Growth of Ciliates Feeding on Harmful Algal Bloom Species: Their Potential Contribution to the Inhibition of Blooms

Utz, L.R.P., Coats, D.W. & Small, E.B.   Induction of Telotroch Formation in the Peritrich Epibionts Zoothamnium spp.



British Section of the Society of Protozoologists

40th Annual Meeting

April 2002

Bristol, UK


Sex in parasitic and free living protists

Walliker, D.   Sex in malaria parasites, and its implications for control of the disease

Miles, M.A., Yeo, M., Frame, I., Stothard, R., Carrasco, H., Taylor, M.C. & Gaunt, M.   Genetic hybridisation in Trypanosoma cruzi

Gibson, W.   Genetic exchange in Trypanosoma brucei

Luporini, P.   Ciliate pheromones: from sex factors to growth factors

de Visser, A.   Testing theories of the evolution of sex using protists


Contributed papers

King, C.A. & Le, S.   Size matters....Problems for the Cell Biology of Gregarine Protozoans

Cowie, P. & Hannah, F.   Abundance of Naked Amoebae in Sandy Sediments of Kames Bay, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland

Preston, T.M. & King, C.A.   Amoeboid locomotion at the water:air interface

Coupe, S.J. & Smith, H.G.   Protozoan diversity, temperature relations and Eukaryotic stimulation of oil biodegradation in permeable pavement structures

Fyda, J., Wolinska, J. & Warren, A.   An investigation of predator-induced defense responses in ciliated protozoa

Hassan, R. & Leadbeater, B.   Variation in a Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS1) among Choanoflagellate taxa

Débora Iglesias-Rodríguez, M., Brown, C.W., Doney, S.C., Kleypas, J., Kolber,D., Kolber, Z., Hayes, P.K. & Falkowski, P.G.   Global Coccolithophorid Populations in a Changing Ocean

Gaze, W., Burroughs, N., Tsibidis, G., Wellington, E.M.H. & Gallagher, M.P.   Protozoa-bacteria interactions in a model system

Canning, E.U., Refardt, D., Okamura, B., Vossbrinck, C.R. & Curry, A.   Nosema-like microsporidia in bryozoans: need for new genera

Cavalier-Smith, T.   The large scale phylogeny and classification of Protozoa

Pérez-Uz, B., Martín-Cereceda , M., Serrano, S. & Guinea, A.   Temporal succession and diversty of biofilm cilitates in a RBC plant

MacLeod, A., Tweedie, A., Taylor, S., McLellan, S., Turner, C.M.R. & Tait A.   Dissecting the sexual cycle of Trypanosoma brucei



German Section Society of Protozoologists

21st Annual Meeting

March 2002

Konstanz, Germany


Agatha, S.   New or Poorly-known Oligotrich and Aloricate Choreotrich Ciliates (Ciliophora) from Marine Waters

Foissner, W. & Agatha, S.   Epicortical Scales: A Tool for Estimating Restricted Geographical Distribution and Global Diversity of Free-Living Ciliates



Groupement des Protistologues de Langue Française (GPLF)

40th Annual Meeting

29-31 May 2002

La Rochelle, France


del Aguila, C.   Environment, Protozoonoses and Health

Bouladoux, N., Biligui, S. & Desportes-Livage, I.   A New Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay to Measure Multiplication of Microsporidia in vitro

Carrias, J-F. & Sime-Ngando, T.   Importance of Phagotrophic Protists in the Plankton of Lakes

Chose, O., Noël, C., Gerbod, D., Sarde, C.O., Brenner, C., Viscogliosi, E. & Roseto, A.   Programmed Cell Death in Amitochondrial Protists

Coradin, T., Gendron-Badou, A.,Lopez, P.J., Frolich, F. & Livage, J.   A chemical approach to diatoms frustule formation

Curds, C., Roberts, D.McL., Salvado, H. & Warren, A.   Ciliates in Aerobic Wastewater-Treatment Processes: The Development of an Interactive Guide to Their Identification and Use as Bioindicators

De Coninck, J., Leclerc, B. & Duyme, F.   Influent Factors on Physiology of Ciliated Protozoa: What Methodology to Choose?

De Montaudouin, X., Jensen, K.T., Bachelet. G., Russell-Pinto, F., Sauriau, P.-G., Raymond, N., Desclaux, C., Wegeberg, A.M., Kisielewski, I., Baudrimont, M., Blanchet, H., Raigne, H. & Palvadeau, A.   Phenology and Dynamics of a Parasite-Host System

Dupuy, C.   Functional Role of Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Protists in the Microbial Food Web of an Oyster-Rearing Atlantic Pond

Faye, N., Cornillot, E., Toguebaye, B.S. & Vivares, C.P.   On the Organization of Subterminal Chromosomal Regions in Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Gbankoto, A., Marques, A. & Sakiti, G.N.   Survey of Gill Myxosporean Parasites of Tilapia from Benin (West Africa)

Gilbert, G. & Mitchell, E.   Rhizopodes are Key Elements of Microbial Trophic Network in Interface Environments

Laffargue, P., Begout-Anras, M-L., Arnaud, C., Baudouin, G., Sasal, P. & Lagardere, F.   Common Sole Juveniles in the Charente Straits Hosting Metacercariae Cysts of a Digenean Trematoda: What Relationships with Shellfish Cultivation?

Marques, A., Guelorget, O., Bouchereau, J.L. & Lucien-Brun, H.   Presence of Microsporidia in Penaeid Shrimp on the West Coast of Madagascar

Metenier, G., Prensier, G., Delbac, F. & Vivares, C.P.   Analysis of Duplicated Genes in the Genome of the Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Moch, C., Fryd-Versavel, G., Baroin-Tourancheau, A. & Fleury-Aubusson, A.   Gamma Tubulin Silencing in the Hypotrich Ciliate Euplotes

Perez, M.T. & Dolan, J.R.   Mixotrophy Among Marine Planktonic Ciliates: Benefits and Potential Costs

Salvado, H., Mas, M., Maillo, P. & Gracia, M.P.   Dynamics of the Protozoan Communities in Activated Sludge of Agricultural Origine

Salvado, H., Rius, M., Mas, M. & Gracia, M.P.   Characterisation of Protozoan Communities by Evaluating the Productivity of Activated Sludg

Soyer-Gobillard, M.O. & Perret, E.   Search for the Function of P72, an HSP 70-Related Protein in a Dinoflagellate: a Light, CLSM and TEM Study

Taupin, V., Peuvel, L., Delbac, F., Vivares, C.P. & Prensier, G.   In Situ Molecular Hybridisation on Cryosections: an Alternative Method to Study Gene Expression in the Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Texier, C., Roux, F., Brosson, D., Delbac, F., Garin, J. & Vivares, C.P.   Proteomics Analysis of Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Vivares, C.P., Cornillot, E., Prensier, G. & Metenier, G.   Microsporidia, Parasitism and Genome Miniaturization




Scandinavian Section Society of Protozoologists

24th Annual Meeting

April 12, 2002

Helsingor, Denmark


Christensen, S.T., Guerra, C.F., Awan, A. & Satir, P.   Cloning and characterization of a putative ciliary membrane-associated protein tyrosine kinase, TtPTK1, involved in insulin-related signaling in Tetrahymena thermophila

Dybvad, J. & Leick, V.   Bacterial single cell protein and fish feed are strong chemoattractants for Tetrahymena thermophila cells

Ekelund, F.   Quantitative estimation of flagellate diversity in soils

Holtze, M.S., Ekelund, F., Rasmussen, L.D. & Johnsen, K.   Effects of mercury on prey-predator dynamics in populations of culturable bacteria and protozoa in soil

Lundholm, N., Moestrup, Ø., Scholin, C. & Miller, P.   Genetic variation of Pseudo-nitzschia cf. delicatissima studied using molecular probes

Moestrup, Ø. & Norén, F.   On Parviluciefra infectans, a perkinsozoan flagellate that attacks and ingests toxic dinoflagellates

Nilssen, J.R.   How toxic is Zinc? Effects of the metal on proliferation, endocytosis, and fine structure of Tetrahymena pyriformis




Czech Section Society of Protozoologists

32nd Annual Meeting

2002

Czech Republic


Bartova, E., Sedlak, K. & Literak, I.   Virulence of Oocysts of the Czech Toxoplasma gondii Isolates

Hajmova, M., Volf, P., Kolli, B.K. & Chang, K.-P.   The Role of Leishmania Surface Metaloprotease gp63 in Sand Fly Vector

Hampl, V., Cepicka, I., Kulda, J., Flegr, J. and Tachezy, J.   The Polarity of Anagenesis of Motility Apparatus and Repeated Switches of Life Strategies in Trichomonad Flagellates

Hauptmanova, K., Literak, I. & Bartova, E.   Haematology and Leucocytozoonosis of Great Tits (Parus major L.)

Holkova, J. & Bedrnik, P.   Impact of High and Low Temperatures on Viability of Chicken Coccidian Oocysts

Hortvikova, M. & Bedrnik, P.   The Sporulation of Oocysts of Fowl’s Coccidia and Possibilities to Influence This Process

Houdek, Z., Hortvikova, M. & Cernik, F.   Efficacy of Neopredisan 135-1 on Viability of Chicken Coccidian Oocysts

Jirku, M., Fiala, I., Vesely, M. & Modry, D.   Renal Myxosporidiasis in Agile Frog, Rana dalmatina (Bonaparte, 1839) in the Czech Republic

Kamler, M., Dolezel, D., Siroky, P. & Modry, D.   Occurrence of Hemolivia cf. mauritanica (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) in Marginated Tortoise, Testudo marginata (Reptilia: Testudinidae)

Kisidayova, S., Laukova, A. & Jalc, D.   Effect of Nisin and Monensin on Rumen Ciliates and Fermentation in Artificial Rumen

Mateju, G. & Bedrnik, P.   Eimeria tenella: Significance of Level of Litter Contamination with Oocysts and Its Humidity for Outbreak of Coccidiosis

Pakandl, M. & Cernik, F.   Endogenous Development of Rabbit Coccidium Eimeria flavescens

Rohousova, I., Cerna, P., Mikes, L. & Volf, P.   Sand Fly Salivary Proteins and Antibody Response of Bitten Hosts

Sedlak, K.   Toxoplasmosis in Antelopes: Finding of Tissue Cysts in Liver in Saiga Antelope (Saiga tatarica)

Stejskal, F., Slapeta, J.R., Ctrnacta, V. & Keithly, J.S.   Molecular Characterization of the Iron-Hydrogenase Gene Homologue from Cryptosporidium parvum

Svobodova, M. & Votypka, J.   Experimental Transmission of Leishmania tropica to Hamsters and Mice by the Bite of Phlebotomus sergenti

Sutak, R., Kulda, J., Tachezy, J. & Hrdy, I.   Pyruvate decarboxylase of Metronidazole-Resistant Tritrichomonas foetus

Tesarova, P., Nebasarova, J., Reischig, J. & Nohynkova, E.   Mitosis in Giardia intestinalis

Vaclavek, P., Koudela, B., Sedlak, K. & Sebesta, R.   Seroprevalences of Antibodies Against Neospora caninum in Cattle and Dogs in the Czech Republic

Vasak, J., Sutak, R., Dolezal, P., Tachezy, J. & Hrdy, I.   Bacterial-Type NADH:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase Mediates Alternative Electron Transport in Trichomonas vaginalis Hydrogenosomes

Vrlik, M., Kulda, J., Nohynkova, E., Pecka, Z. & Tachezy, J.   Trichomonad affinities of Cochlosoma confirmed by sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene




Italian Section Society of Protozoologists

23rd Annual Meeting

October 4-5, 2002

Porto Conte, Sassari, Italy


Alberti, L., Mattana, A., Fiori, P.L. & Cappuccinelli, P.   In vitro study on the interactions between Acanthamoeba castellanii and some haematic cells (erythrocytes and platelets)

Alimenti, C., Ortenzi, C., Carratore, V. & Luporini, P.   Structural characterization of a second pheromone (En-1) isolated from the Antarctic ciliate, Euplotes nobilii

Amaroli, A., Gallus, L., Passalacqua, M., Falugi, C., Viarengo, A. & Delmonte Corrado, M.U.   Detection of cholinesterase activities throughout the developmental cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum

Angelici, M.C., Cherchi, S., Possenti, A. & Gramiccia, M.   Prenatal diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis: the experience of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Italy

Angelici, M.C., Possenti, A., Marinucci, M. & Gramiccia, M.   Cysteine proteinase genes in parasitic protozoa: new identification and use as marker of genetic affinity

Angius, A., Prodi, D.A., Sassu, A., Persico, I., Simpore, J. & Musumeci, S.   Macrophage, chitotriosidase and malaria

Avanzini, C., Bozzaro, S., Pergolizzi, B., Zucca, M. & Savoia, D.   Dictyostelium discoideum as a model for the study of host-parasite interaction

Buonanno, F., Saltalamacchia, P. and Miyake, A.   The extrusomal pigment of the karyorelictid ciliate Loxodes striatus as defense toxin against predators

Coppellotti, O. & Guidolin, L.   Ciliates from two Karst Caves in Italy

Coppellotti, O., Kassab, K. & Jori, G.   Porphyrin Photosensitization of Colpoda inflata Cysts

Fronte, P., Beltrame, F., Diaspro, A., Fato, M., Scaglione, S.,Usai, C. & Ramoino, P.   Intracellular Trafficking of GABAB Receptors in Paramecium

Gramiccia, M., Ludovisi, A., Nardoni, S., Di Muccio, T. & Mancianti, F.   PCR and Nested PCR for diagnosis of canine leishmaniasis in peripheral blood from dogs living in endemic areas of Italy

La Terza, A., Miceli, C. & Luporini, P.   Adaptive evolution of hsp70 gene expression in the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii

Mattana, A., Serra, C., Fiori, P.L., Cappuccinelli, P. & Dolei, A.   In Vitro Study on the Interactions between Trichomonas vaginalis and HIV

Modeo, L., Petroni, G., Melai, M., Verni, F. & Rosati, G.   Multidisciplinary Approach to Describe Protists and to Determine Their Taxonomic Position and Phylogenetic Relationships

Ognibene, M., Trielli, F., Giovampaola, C.D., Focarelli, R., Rosati, F. & Delmonte Corrado, M.U.   Identification and characterization of a 38kDa glycoprotein candidate for promoting mating interaction in Paramecium primaurelia

Prodi, D.A., Angius, A., Sassu, A., Persico, I., Simpore, J. & Musumeci, S.   Can malaria infection have a leadership on clinical expression of Leishmaniasis?

Pucciarelli, S., Di Guiseppe, G., Dini, F., Luporini, P. & Miceli, C.   Euplotes focardii, an Antarctic psychrophilic ciliate of presumed Gondwanan origin?

Sannella, A., Sorino, S., Persichini, T., Colasanti, M. & Gradoni, L.   Activity of a New NO-Releasing Drug Against Entamoeba histolytica

Trielli, F., Ognibene, M., Passalacqua, M., Della giovampaola, c., Rosati, F. & Delmonte Corrado, M.U.   Immunolocalization of a 38kDa glycoprotein candidate for promoting mating interaction, throughout the developmental cycle of Paramecium primaurelia

Vannini, C., Petroni, G., Schena, A., Verni, F. & Rosati, G.  The Prokaryotic Symbionts of the Marine Ciliate Euplotes magnicirratus: Characterization and Functional Role