| identification of the bacterial endosymbionts of the marine ciliate euplotes magnicirratus (ciliophora, hypotrichia) and proposal of 'candidatus devosia euplotis'. | this paper reports the identification of bacterial endosymbionts that inhabit the cytoplasm of the marine ciliated protozoon euplotes magnicirratus. ultrastructural and full-cycle rrna approaches were used to reveal the identity of these bacteria. based on analysis of 16s rrna gene sequences, evolutionary trees were constructed; these placed the endosymbiont in the genus devosia in the alpha-proteobacteria. the validity of this finding was also shown by fluorescence in situ hybridization with a ... | 2004 | 15280284 |