{"id":288,"date":"2016-05-19T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/?p=288"},"modified":"2016-05-26T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T18:00:26","slug":"tintinnida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/tintinnida\/","title":{"rendered":"Tintinnida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tintinnids\u00a0<br \/>By Nic Christ<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Tintinnid<\/h3>\n<p>Tintinnids are complex single-cell organisms that can be found in marine and fresh waters. Their shells that comes in a variety of styles are called loricae and are made from proteins (Dolan and Gallegos 2001). Cilia points out from the top of the cell, which looks a bit like hair. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"tintinnid 1\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1-600x781.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/tintinnid-1.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>The cilia are used to create a water flow that carries food across the mouth of the tintinnid. Tintinnids mostly feed on photosynthetic algae and bacteria which makes them a vital link in the food chain. They feed on phytoplankton and are then fed on by organisms like small crustaceans and larval fish (Stoecker 2013).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Dolan, John R. and Gallegos, Charles L. \u201cEstuarine diversity of tintinnids (planktonic ciliates).\u201d <br \/>Journal of Plankton Research. Volume 23, issue 9. 2001. Pp. 1009-1027. Web. <br \/>Stoecker, Daine K. &#8220;Predators of Tintinnids.&#8221; Predators of Tintinnids. John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd, 20 <br \/>Sept. 2012. Web. 17 May 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tintinnids\u00a0By Nic Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2460,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}