Halteria, sometimes referred to as the jumping oligotrich, is a genus of common planktonic ciliates that are found in many freshwater environments. Halteria...

2022, DeLong et al. showed that over the course of two days the ciliates Halteria and Paramecium reduced chlorovirus plaque-forming units by up to two orders...

and choreotrichs appear to form closely related, natural groups. However Halteria and its close relatives, originally considered oligotrichs, form a separate...

other microbial food sources were removed from the water, the ciliate Halteria was observed to have increased in number due to the active consumption...

complete circle. The body cilia are reduced to a girdle and ventral cilia. In Halteria and its relatives, they form bristles or cirri; however these forms may...

suggested their inclusion as a sister group to the flies, in a clade called Halteria, which have one pair of the wings modified into halteres, and failed to...

through kleptoplasty or symbiosis with photosynthetic microbes. The ciliate Halteria has been observed to feed on chloroviruses. Feeding techniques vary considerably...

Binomial name Mesodinium rubrum Hamburger and Buddenbrock, 1929 Synonyms Halteria rubra Lohmann, 1908 Myrionecta rubra Lohmann, 1908 Cyclotrichium meunieri...

lot of controversy include Strepsiptera and Diptera grouped together as Halteria based on a reduction of one of the wing pairs – a position not well-supported...

Protista Phylum Ciliophora : Chilodonella sp., Epistylis sp., Euplotes sp., Halteria sp., Homalozoon sp., Nassula sp., Oxytricha sp., Pleuronema sp., Podophrya...