{"id":17,"date":"2013-10-24T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2019-02-28T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:55:32","slug":"info-corner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/info-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Info Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_131\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kopfbild_InfoCorner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131 colorbox-17\" alt=\"Wimpertierchen Uroleptus willii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kopfbild_InfoCorner.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uroleptus willii<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>What are ciliates<\/b>?<\/h3>\n<p>Ciliates are unicellular eukaryotes (protists) bearing cilia and having two different nuclei (macro- and micronucleus). Their sizes range mainly between 10 &#8211; 1.000 \u00b5m and they preferably feed on small algae or bacteria. Ciliates are well adapted to their environment and short generation times make them ideal indicator organisms for biotic or abiotic changes in their surrounding water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Adaptations to a planktonic lifestyle\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>(examples)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>spherical or ellipsoid shapes as well as long cilia facilitate floating in the water<\/li>\n<li>with specific jumping bristles some ciliates can escape predators (e.g. planktonic crustaceans)<\/li>\n<li>attachment to algal colonies or detritus flocks (because of this \u2018surface enlargement\u2019 the ciliates cannot easily be ingested by predators)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learn more:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Microbial food web\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/info-corner\/microbial-food-web\/\"><strong>Microbial food web<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photoprotective strategies of ciliates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/projects\/photoprotective-strategies-of-ciliates\/\"><strong>Photoprotective strategies of ciliates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are ciliates? Ciliates are unicellular eukaryotes (protists) bearing cilia and having two different nuclei (macro- and micronucleus). Their sizes range mainly between 10 &#8211; 1.000 \u00b5m and they preferably feed on small algae or bacteria. Ciliates are well adapted to their environment and short generation times make them ideal indicator organisms for biotic or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciliates.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}