Flora and Fauna
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- What are Foraminifera?
- Forams as they are usually known, are abundant in all the oceans. Information on their biology, what they eat, what eats them, and their use in dating rocks and as environmental indicators.
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- Xenophyophore
- Article from Wikipedia on these strange marine organisms which genetic studies suggest should be included in the phylum Foraminifera.
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- Xenophyophores, the Giants of the Protozoan World
- Article by Dave Walker on these large single celled organisms found deep in the ocean.
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- Calcareous Nannofossils
- Information on these organisms including their fossil record, classification, biology and life cycle with a number of images of individual species.
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- Coccolithophore
- Information from Wikipedia on these single-celled algae which form part of the phytoplankton.
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- Haptophyte
- Information from Wikipedia on these single celled green algae which are some of the most abundant marine phytoplankton, especially in the open ocean and are plentiful as microfossils.
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- Mushroom Photo Gallery: Myxomycetes
- About twenty photographs of various slime molds found in the United States.
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- Slime Molds
- Student project by Brad Renner including classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.
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- Slime Mould
- Information on slime moulds which were originally considered to be fungi by mycologists and amoebae by zoologists, respectively classified as Myxomycota (slime fungi) or Mycetozoa (fungus animals).
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- Buddenbrockia plumatellae
- The taxonomic placement of this parasitic worm long puzzled biologists. Information from Wikipedia on this species, sometimes known as Tetracapsula bryozoides.
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- Myxobolus cerebralis
- Information from Wikipedia on this parasite which causes whirling disease in salmon and trout, its taxonomy, morphology, life cycle, pathology, impact on fish farming, prevention and control.
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- Myxozoa
- Information from Wikipedia on this group of parasitic animals including their phylogenetics.
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- Myxozoa
- Information on these parasites, many of which have a two host life cycle involving a fish and an annelid worm or bryozoan. From the Tree of Life Web Project.
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- Myxozoa are Cnidarians
- Images of species of Chloromyxum, Henneguya, Myxobolus and Myxidium. Also annotated images of specimens for comparison purposes and evidence based on rDNA studies which suggest Myxozoans should be reclassified as Cnidarians.
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- Breakthrough in Fish Disease Mystery
- Research brief from Imperial College, London giving information on the identification of the causal agent of the serious fish disease known as Proliferative Kidney Disease, PKD. (December 01, 1999)
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- The Intertidal Rocky Shore: Brown Seaweeds
- Photographs of about 30 species of brown algae that grow around the coasts of New Zealand.