Publications

rare freshwater ciliate paramecium chlorelligerum kahl, 1935 and its macronuclear symbiotic bacterium "candidatus holospora parva".	ciliated protists often form symbioses with many diverse microorganisms. in particular, symbiotic associations between ciliates and green algae, as well as between ciliates and intracellular bacteria, are rather wide-spread in nature. in this study, we describe the complex symbiotic system between a very rare ciliate, paramecium chlorelligerum, unicellular algae inhabiting its cytoplasm, and novel bacteria colonizing the host macronucleus. paramecium chlorelligerum, previously found only twice i ...	2016	27992463
morphological and molecular characterization of paramecium (viridoparamecium nov. subgen.) chlorelligerum kahl (ciliophora).	we redescribe paramecium chlorelligerum, a forgotten species, which kahl (tierwelt dtl., 1935, 30:651) briefly but precisely described in the addendum to his ciliate monographs as a paramecium with symbiotic green algae. the redescription is based on classical morphological methods and the analysis of the small subunit (ssu) rdna. morphologically, p. chlorelligerum differs from p. (c.) bursaria, the second green species in the genus, by having a special swimming shape, the length of the caudal c ...	2017	22827482