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Article: Studies conducted at University of Lisbon, Center for Environmental Biology on protozoan recently published.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- November 18, 2008
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A report, 'Observations on Pyxidium tardigradum (Ciliophora), a protozoan living on Eutardigrada: infestation, morphology and feeding behaviour,' is newly published data in Parasitology Research. "Pyxidium tardigradum is a protozoan that has been reported on a few occasions as an epizoan symphoriont living on eutardigrades. We report here the first records of this species from Kirghizia (the first Asian record), Poland and Portugal," scientists writing in the journal Parasitology Research report (see also Protozoan).
"The Portuguese population revealed the largest P. tardigradum infestation ever described in terms of both the whole tardigrade population, with 60% ...