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» A Preliminary Look at the Ciliates of Borehole 25
   David Richman takes samples from a borehole in Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge and finds the high-salinity water rich in ciliates.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/drcilia.html

» Actinobolina Being Vorax
   Article with illustrations by Rosemarie Arbur on a specimen of Actobolina vorax behaving in a strange way.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct01/actinobolina.html

» Amphileptus
   Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec00/amphileptus.html

» Blepharisma
   Photographic study of these ciliates by Jannette Hanna, including videos.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov04macro/jhblepharisma.html

» Carchesium
   Article by Wim van Egmond on this stalked ciliate, with a pen and ink drawing.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/junimg2.html

» Chlamydodon spp.
   Photograph of this ciliated protozoan.
   http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Chlamyd_spp.htm

» Ciliate Center
   Images and notes on a number of species of ciliate.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/smal1.html

» Ciliates
   Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these organisms with many excellent photographs of various species.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/wimsmall/cilidr.html

» Ciliophora
   Information and photographs from Microbewiki on these organisms, their description and significance, their genome, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.
   http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Ciliophora

» Ciliophora (Ciliates)
   Lists the families and genera included in this diverse group of single celled microbes.
   http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/eukaryotes/chromalveolata/alveolata/ciliophora/

» Ciliophora: Protozoans that Move with Cilia
   Illustrations and information on about twenty species of ciliate, with microscopic images of many of them.
   http://www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critters/protozoans/ciliphora/ciliophora.htm

» Coleps
   Illustration and information on this ciliate.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/colepsi.html

» Colpoda
   Article by Rosemarie Arbur with a series of diagrams showing these protists exiting from a cyst.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep00/colpoda.html

» Dessert for Dileptus
   Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the behavior and feeding habits of this ciliate.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr01/dileptus2.html

» Didinium the Master Feeder.
   Photographic study by Mike Dingley of this ciliate, Didinium nasutum, consuming a Paramecium larger than itself.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97/dingley3.html

» Dileptus at Dinnertime
   Illustrated article by Rosemarie Arbur on the interactions of the two ciliates, Dileptus and Litonotus, which are both carnivores.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov00/dinnertime.html

» Dysteria spp.
   Photograph and information on this ciliate.
   http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Dysteria_spp.htm

» Euplotes sp.
   Several images.
   http://www.pirx.com/droplet/gallery/euplotes.html

» Folliculina, a Marine Ciliate
   Photographic study by Wim van Egmond of this tube-dwelling protozoan.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan03/fol.html

» Image Gallery: Paramecium portfolio
   Some black and white photographs of these organisms, including conjugation and fission, taken by Jim Evarts.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artapr02/jeparam.html

» Introduction to the Ciliata
   Photographs and information on these single celled organisms, their appearance in the fossil record, life history, ecology, systematics and morphology.
   http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/ciliata.html

» Lacrymaria olor: Tear of a Swan
   Article by Professor Richard Howey on this freshwater protozoan.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art98/tear1.html

» Paramecium
   Photographs and information on these single-celled organisms.
   http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/paramecium.htm

» Protist Images: Ciliophora
   Classifies ciliates and provides a large number of images of individual species. English and Japanese.
   http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/PDB/Images/Protista/CiliophoraE.html

» Ruminating on Some Secret Ciliates.
   Photographic study by Dave Furness on the ciliates that spend their lives in the rumens of domestic cattle.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov03/dfrumen.html

» Stentors
   Photographic study by Howard Webb of these colonial ciliates.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjul07/hw-stentor.html

» Suctoria
   Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of these marine protists, with several animated sequences.
   http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmar03/jmcsuctoria.html

» Tetrahymena
   Information on this ciliated freshwater protozoan, with a video showing organisms swimming, dividing and moving their cilia from the Microbiology Video Library.
   http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Tetrahymena.html

» The Ciliate Resource Archive
   Provides a complete classification of the phylum Ciliophora down to genus level.
   http://www.uoguelph.ca/~ciliates/classification/genera.html

» Zoothamnium niveum
   Photographs and information on this colonial protist.
   http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Zootham_niveum.htm