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#MarineBiology #Plankton #Copepod #Diatom #Dinoflagellate #MarineLife #OceanScience #MBA

My first ever Dinophysis sp. dinoflagellate! I believe this is Dinophysis acuta.

#marineplankton #dinoflagellate 🦑

Watercolor painting of a red detailed dinoflagellate. Dinoflagellates are tiny translucent organisms and come in a variety of shapes. This one is like an oval wearing a pointy topped hat.

Dinoflagellate for #AnimalArtTuesday

Watercolor on mini canvasboard
#SciArt #marinelife #dinoflagellate #watercolor

PhD scholarships in cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)

For more information please email Prof. Simon Davy at simon.davy@vuw.ac.nz

#coralreefs #cnidarians #phd #scholarship #dinoflagellate #symbiosis #marinebiology

Photograph of a small fish caught in a landing-net, and showing multiple small white cysts typical of dinoflagellate infection.

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Nguyen et al. describe #Dermisichthinium_pseudosporum, a novel #Cyst-forming #Parasitic #Dinoflagellate from a distinct lineage, infecting #FreshwaterFish in WI, USA. This highlights the need for accurate #Diagnostics in #FishHealth. bit.ly/dao_164_67

saw bioluminescent dinoflagellates for the first time ☺️🦠 #bioluminescence #dinoflagellate

A giant virus wags its tail University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.

Giant #virus wags its tail ...

| #PelV | #phytoplankton | #dinoflagellate | #DNA | #tRNA | Via @sciencex.bsky.social

Playing with my new #microscope and camera setup, came across some beautiful reworked #Eocene #dinoflagellate cysts, in #pollen slides from some #Holocene estuarine alluvium!

Marked Genome Reduction Driven by a Parasitic Lifestyle: Two Complete Genomes of Endosymbiotic Bacteria Possibly Hosted by a Dinoflagellate Bacteria with endosymbiotic lifestyles often show marked genome reduction. While the shrinkage of genomes in intracellular symbionts of animals, inclu …

Marked Genome Reduction Driven by a Parasitic Lifestyle: Two Complete Genomes of Endosymbiotic Bacteria Possibly Hosted by a Dinoflagellate
#microbiology #endosymbionts #parasites #dinoflagellate
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme...

One of the great things about #microscopy is the variety of other micro-critters you encounter on your slides, which often are just as important in your #geoarchaeological story. One few favourite are #dinoflagellate cysts which are marine #microfossils most often associated with bedrock deposits

Painting of three dinoflagellates in mainly blue on a dark background. Dinoflagellates are microscopic organisms that have been around super long. They look like little gelatinous transparent blobs with tiny tails. The little organ system things are visible through their outer later and have very different amorphous shapes and patterns. These look like they are swimming. With trails of very small groupings of circles around them.

Dinoflagellates n.2 (2018)

Acrylic and ink on canvas
For #blueskymonday

#Tradart 🐙 #dinoflagellate
Please add me to #Sciart

New Parasite of the Month: #Hematodinium #perezi, a parasitic #dinoflagellate infecting #marine #crustacean species, authored by Hamish Small & Caiwen Li. #Crab #Fishery #Aquaculture

authors.elsevier.com/a/1keJ25Eb1x...

Joseph Perkins gave an excellent talk (gollum included) about #dinoflagellate #eDNA and what each clade does. #SeDNA2025

Scientists elucidate molecular mechanisms behind dinoflagellate cyst dormancy Dinoflagellates play crucial roles in aquatic ecosystems, particularly as major contributors to harmful algal blooms. They can enter a dormant stage, known as the resting cyst stage, that allows them ...

Scientists elucidate #molecular mechanisms behind #dinoflagellate #cyst #dormancy.

#cDNA #DinoSL #genomics #metatranscriptome #hormones #ABA #GA #metabolomics

phys.org/news/2025-02...

Sticker from my husband. #dinoflagellate is this safe for work?

Impaired photoacclimation in a kleptoplastidic dinoflagellate reveals physiological limits of early stages of endosymbiosis Dinophysis dinoflagellates use plastids stolen from prey. Garric et al. show that these plastids cannot synthesize a complete phycoerythrin, a crucial photosynthetic protein. Dinophysis thus relies on prey ingestion for photoacclimation. It is noteworthy that some Dinophysis have acquired phycoerythrin synthesis genes from cryptophytes during evolution.

--PhD Publications by Sarah Garric--

#Photophysiology of the haploid form of the #cryptophyte Teleaulax amphioxeia
doi.org/10.1111/jpy....

Impaired photoacclimation in a #kleptoplastidic #dinoflagellate reveals physiological limits of early stages of #endosymbiosis

Dinoflagellate, forged steel. Photo by @fburki.bsky.social.

#sciart #dinoflagellate #protistsonsky

New publication from the amazing Joe Perkins explores #dinoflagellate abundance & diversity in Hervey Bay, Qld using #DNAmetabarcoding. First-time identification of some #toxin-producing species in Australia!🧬

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A lovely #dinoflagellate, Prorocentrum micans, from this week’s sample

weekend vibes 🎶
#protistsonsky #dinoflagellate #cilia

Painting that depicts three dinoflagellates of various sizes. The canvas is square and left raw (unprimed) for the background. Dinoflagellates are tiny and very old microorganisms that live in marine habitats. Their exterior is translucent, so their little various organelle blobs are visible through their little globby bodies. (Artist is not a scientist and struggles with some aphasia). These jiggly dinoflagellates are primarily yellow in places where they are colored. See, these wonderful creatures come with all sorts of designs and their innards are all different too! It’s wild. They look like something I dreamed up with all their circles and stripes and speckles. One of them has a little organelle that looks all brainy textured. And that’s real! The artist also chose to make groupings of organic ovals in the background space like they often do. It’s a part of their “style” or somesuch. One of the organelles also looks like a little butt. I don’t make the rules. I just paint what I see.

My hands haven’t been able to draw the past couple of days (dystonia). There isn’t a new nudibranch for y’all; but I offer you this Dinoflagellate painting from some years ago.

I just love dinoflagellates.

#dinoflagellate #art #traditionalart 🦑

Emoji Tree of life

Coccolithophore emoji

Foraminifera emoji

Dinoflagellate emoji

Interesting read today about the The Tree of Life, emoji version - www.nature.com/articles/d41... - take home messages, we need more invertebrates - so I asked an emoji generator to make a #coccolithophore, a #foraminifera, and a #dinoflagellate - hilarious results

Lovely video by @griffiths_huw, featuring snakelocks #anemones (*Anemonia viridis*), which host #dinoflagellate #algal symbionts in their tentacles! https://https://t.co/oJnDUC3Jfg

In GBE: #Plastid transcript editing across #dinoflagellate lineages shows lineage-specific application but conserved trends #evolution #algae #chloroplast academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/...