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Infection of Slugs with Theronts of the Ciliate Protozoan, Tetrahymena rostrata

Tetrahymena rostrata is a free-living ciliated protozoan and is a facultative parasite of some species of terrestrial mollusks. It is a potential biopesticide of pest slugs, such as the grey field slug, which cause considerable damage to crops. T. rostrata has several developmental forms. Homogeneou...

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Autores principales: Haites, Ruth E., Watt, Anne E., Russell, Derek A., Billman-Jacobe, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34576866
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9091970
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description Tetrahymena rostrata is a free-living ciliated protozoan and is a facultative parasite of some species of terrestrial mollusks. It is a potential biopesticide of pest slugs, such as the grey field slug, which cause considerable damage to crops. T. rostrata has several developmental forms. Homogeneous preparations of the feeding stage cells (trophonts) and excysted stage cells (theronts) were compared for their ability to infect and kill Deroceras reticulatum slugs. Theronts were more effective and remained viable and infective, even after prolonged starvation.
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spelling pubmed-84677182021-09-27 Infection of Slugs with Theronts of the Ciliate Protozoan, Tetrahymena rostrata Haites, Ruth E. Watt, Anne E. Russell, Derek A. Billman-Jacobe, Helen Microorganisms Article Tetrahymena rostrata is a free-living ciliated protozoan and is a facultative parasite of some species of terrestrial mollusks. It is a potential biopesticide of pest slugs, such as the grey field slug, which cause considerable damage to crops. T. rostrata has several developmental forms. Homogeneous preparations of the feeding stage cells (trophonts) and excysted stage cells (theronts) were compared for their ability to infect and kill Deroceras reticulatum slugs. Theronts were more effective and remained viable and infective, even after prolonged starvation. MDPI 2021-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8467718/ /pubmed/34576866 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9091970 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Infection of Slugs with Theronts of the Ciliate Protozoan, Tetrahymena rostrata
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title_full_unstemmed Infection of Slugs with Theronts of the Ciliate Protozoan, Tetrahymena rostrata
title_short Infection of Slugs with Theronts of the Ciliate Protozoan, Tetrahymena rostrata
title_sort infection of slugs with theronts of the ciliate protozoan, tetrahymena rostrata
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8467718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34576866
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9091970
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