Stentor coeruleus
| Stentor coeruleus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Sar |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Ciliophora |
| Class: | Heterotrichea |
| Order: | Heterotrichida |
| Family: | Stentoridae |
| Genus: | Stentor |
| Species: | S. coeruleus
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| Binomial name | |
| Stentor coeruleus Ehrenberg, 1830[1]
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Stentor coeruleus (ⓘ[a]) is a protist in the family Stentoridae which is characterized by being a very large ciliate that measures 0.5 to 2 millimetres when fully extended.
S. coeruleus specifically appears as a very large trumpet. It contains a macronucleus that looks like a string of beads that are contained within a ciliate that is blue to blue-green in color. It has the ability to contract into a ball through the contraction of its many myonemes .[2]
Stentor coeruleus is known for its regenerative abilities.[3] When this organism is cut in half, each half is able to regenerate a cell that has its normal anatomy provided that each cut part includes some of the macro-nucleus.[4] It feeds by means of cilia that carry food into the gullet.
- ^ "Protist Images: Stentor coeruleus". Protist.i.hosei.ac.jp. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ^ Rotkiewicz, Piotr. "Stentor - Droplet Photo Gallery". Droplet - Microscopy of the Protozoa.
- ^ Sood, Pranidhi; McGillivary, Rebecca; Marshall, Wallace F. (2017-12-29). "The Transcriptional Program of Regeneration in the Giant Single Cell, Stentor coeruleus". bioRxiv: 240788. doi:10.1101/240788. S2CID 89792744.
- ^ Slabodnick, Mark M.; Marshall, Wallace F. (2014-09-08). "Stentor coeruleus". Current Biology. 24 (17): R783 – R784. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.044. ISSN 0960-9822. PMC 5036449. PMID 25202864.
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