DAY 497
SPECIES 497 - Polykrikos schwartzii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen

P. schwartzii (Schwartz’s many ringed one) is a dinoflagellate that looks like a ringed colony of fused cells, but is a single cell

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DAY 496
SPECIES 496 - Dinophysis fortii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen

D. fortii is a single celled armored marine dinoflagellate that produces marine biotoxins.

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DAY 495
SPECIES 495 - Trachelomonas hirta
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen

T. hirta (Hairy neck unit) is a photosynthetic euglenoid. Its enclosed in a rigid protective shell with a surface covered in fine spines

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DAY 494
SPECIES 494 - Leucocytozoon simondi
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Kingart pen

L. simondi is a protozoan blood parasite that causes leucocytozoonosis, a malaria related disease of ducks and geese.

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DAY 493
SPECIES 493 - Chromera velia
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen

C. velia is a single celled alga with 2 main forms: a stationary round cell and a swimming stage with two flagella.

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🌊 We celebrated #CoccolithophoreDay at the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb!

Our team from the Ruđer Bošković Institute brought the fascinating world of coccolithophores to life through microscopy, VR, puzzles and hands-on activities for all ages! 🔬

#ScienceOutreach #protistsonsky

DAY 492
SPECIES 492 - Balantioides coli
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura pen

B. coli is the largest single celled protozoan parasite that can infect humans and the only known ciliated parasite to do so.

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Please enjoy this new offering from the lab: we discover that #excavates - ancient flagellate lineages with a voracious appetite for bacteria - change their behaviour depending on the availability of said prey!

Preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Happy to say that 250 years of Tintinnid Studies is on the cover of Acta - (OK, I know it's not RollingStone...) - still nice - #protistsonsky ilnk to both artcles together:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

DAY 491
SPECIES 491 - Tripos ranipes
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor. Sakura & Pentel pen

T. ranipes (Frog foot) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.

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My favourite long neck choano found again in Mediterranean sea. Finger crossed to get it grow this time! 🤞
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #protistsonsky

A colleague just thoughtfully dropped this off for me. I had never heard of it before, but it turns out to be a fantastic little resource for protist identification. Nice drawings with good descriptions of behavior and sampling tips.

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Glad to see our paper on differences in bacterial and protist diversity patterns of brackish (Baltic) plankton out in @commsbio.nature.com!

Thanks to @doubleanders.bsky.social and all the co-authors.

#MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

DAY 490
SPECIES 490 - Oxyrrhis marina
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Sakura & Writech pen

O. marina is a marine heterotrophic dinoflagellate widely used as a model organism in protist ecological and evolutionary research

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epibiotic diatoms bothering a copepod. thought it was pretty 😌 pictures taken on a recent sampling trip to Curacao

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Cool science alert!!
A dream come true at #ALPOLE Sion with @embl.org's Advanced Mobile Lab: hiking, sampling and learning from amazing scientists. And bringing back a tooooon of microscopic pets 🔬🧪

Thanks everyone and thanks @dudinlab.bsky.social 🥹#ProtistsOnSky

DAY 489
SPECIES 489 - Sphenoderia lenta
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen

S. lenta is a testate amoeba: a single celled amoeboid organism living inside a self built shell.

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