{"id":329,"date":"2016-05-19T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/?p=329"},"modified":"2016-05-26T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:47:10","slug":"protoperidinium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/protoperidinium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Protoperidinium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protoperidinium, dinoflagellate<br \/>By Nic Christ<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Protoperidinium<\/h3>\n<p>Protoperidinium are dinoflagellates that can be found throughout the world\u2019s coastal ocean at about the size fifty to one hundred micrometers. They have a diamond shaped cell that acts as strong armor and is made of a series of plates where their flagellae come through (Johannesson et al 2000).\u00a0The flagella is what gives the protoperidinium the ability to swim. <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-346 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"proto2\" width=\"414\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-768x759.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-1024x1012.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-945x934.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2-600x593.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2016\/05\/proto2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/>These dinoflagellates are either colorless or have faint yellow or brownish colors. Pink and red patches may be present on their shell as well. They play an important role in the food chain, the serve as predators as well a prey. They eat small organisms like diatoms and are fed on by plankton like copepods (Evagelopoulos 2002).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Johannesson, Bo, Larsvik, Martin, Loo, Lars-Ove, Samuelsson, Helena. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cProtoperidinium-dinoflagellates.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aquascope. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tj\u00e4rn\u00f6 Marine Biological <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laboratory, Str\u00f6mstad, Sweden. 2000. Web. 18 May 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evagelopoulos, A. \u201cTaxonomic notes on Protoperidinium (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">species in the Thermaikos Bay (North Aegean Sea, Greece)\u201d. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mediterranean <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marine Science. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vol. 3\/2, 2002. University of the Aegean, Department of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marine Sciences, University Hill, 811 00, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece. pp. 41-54. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Web (PDF). 17 May 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protoperidinium, dinoflagellateBy Nic Christ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2460,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/vms-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}