Oh wow! That's super cool! 😁❤️

It infects the small intestine, spreading worldwide through water, food, or surfaces contaminated with infected feces. Its distinctive face like appearance is formed by two nuclei and a ventral adhesive disc

DAY 319
SPECIES 319 - Giardia duodenalis
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

Giardia duodenalis is a microscopic flagellated parasite that causes a diarrheal illness known as giardiasis

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Actinophrys sol known as the sun animalcule, is a spherical, freshwater heliozoan with numerous radiating, needle like axopodia that give it a sun like appearance.

DAY 319
SPECIES 319 - Actinophrys sol
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

It moves very slowly and has a large central nucleus

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It has a naked stage of its life cycle where it exists without its silica armor

DAY 318
SPECIES 318 - Stephanocha speculum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

Stephanocha speculum is a marine flagellate with a beautiful geometric silica skeleton made of hollow opaline silica rods

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It has one of the fastest body contractions of any living cell, contracting to less than half its normal length in 5 milliseconds. During that contraction, the cell reaches accelerations of nearly 14 G's

DAY 317
SPECIES 317 - Spirostomum ambiguum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen

S. ambiguum is one of the largest single celled organisms, reaching up to 4mm long and visible to the naked eye

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Love the linework!

Thanks! I feel like we are surrounded by Pokémon! 😁

It's a predatory freshwater ciliate with the ability to extend its neck up to 30 times its body length through an origami like cellular architecture. A folded cell membrane with 15 sequential pleats that unspool during extension.

DAY 316
SPECIES 316 - Lacrymaria olor
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura & Pentel pen

Lacrymaria olor's name translates roughly to "Swan's tear",it references both the teardrop body shape and the swan like neck

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It evades the immune system by constantly switching its surface coat from a repertoire of 1000+ different protein variants.

DAY 315
SPECIES 315 - Trypanosoma brucei
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura & Kingart pen

T. brucei is a flagellated, extracellular protozoan parasite that causes African Sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle.

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P. parvum is a tiny golden alga responsible for catastrophic fish kills across the world. It produces potent toxins that rupture gill cells, a single bloom can wipe out every fish in a river system

DAY 314
SPECIES 314 - Prymnesium parvum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek, QoR, & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen

NOTES: Tried doing too much, and got humbled by the paint 💢🖌️

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There you go, not a bad idea. Makes me wonder if I've already got any protists crawling on my walls. 🧐

It has rows of long, oar like axopods anchored to its nucleus, which it uses to row through the water in a coordinated stroke. It is the only known member of the order Taxopodida.

DAY 313
SPECIES 313 - Sticholonche zanclea
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

Sticholonche zanclea is a unique marine protist found in open oceans

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Leishmania donovani is a unicellular, eukaryotic protozoan parasite transmitted by sandfly bites and responsible for causing visceral leishmaniasis. A severe and often fatal if left untreated systemic disease affecting the liver, spleen, and bone marrow

DAY 312
SPECIES 312 - Leishmania donovani
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura & Writech pen

NOTES: Back in bacteria I made a few paintings that looked like old wallpaper, I wanted to do something similar today

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I feel the same way! But I may be biased, I am on Bluesky. 😁

D. nasutum is a barrel shaped predator with two bands of cilia and a cone shaped snout it uses to hunt Paramecium, a prey that is often much larger than itself. It's commonly found in pond water.

DAY 311
SPECIES 311 - Didinium nasutum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen

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Its name means "destroying plant" and was responsible for the late blight that devastated potato crops across Europe in the 1840s. It triggered the Great Irish Famine and the death or displacement of over two million people.

DAY 310
SPECIES 310 - Phytophthora infestans
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen

P. infestans is a beautiful water mold, but one of the most destructive plant pathogens ever recorded

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Many do, but it seems there is a wide variety with many different body plans.

Thanks! Blue is the only color I want to use 😆

Thanks! Tried something a bit new with the stippling on this cool little critter