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Herbivores are quite important for the reef because they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
In this research area, yeasts and filamentous fungi have played key roles as model systems.
These forms arise when cells are limited for nutrients and bud in a unipolar pattern, spreading through the medium in filamentous arrays.
A few diatoms have minor amounts of precipitates on their surfaces whereas others are enwrapped by silicified filamentous microbes.
The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and apparently serve the same function, as root hairs.
While human bodies have skeletons of bones, our cells have a framework made of a filamentous network.
These mated cells can grow in filamentous form with meiosis occurring at the terminal cell of the hyphae.
I saw the honeyeaters so well that I could see the filamentous white plumes on their black throats.
Also, a mat of threadlike filamentous algae floating on the surface greatly increases the rate of water loss through evaporation.
All told, filamentous growth represents a complex biological output that is influenced to a greater or lesser degree by many parameters.
The waters contain an abundant, but low diversity, microbial population of thermophilic filamentous and coccoid bacteria.
Some bifurcations appear to join with those below to form a thin, filamentous network.
However, in the free state, these bacteria are generally found as filamentous green algae in fresh and brackish waters.
Action spectra for phototaxis in some filamentous cyanobacteria suggested that photosynthetic pigments were involved in the photoreception.
It has been recently shown that fusel alcohols, notably butanol, induce filamentous growth in haploid cells on both solid and liquid media.
Herbivores are quite important for the reef as they keep thick mats of filamentous and leafy algae from smothering the corals.
A senescence-like autolytic programme is present in unicellular and filamentous green algae.
Some species will parasitize other organisms, such as zooplankton and other protists, filamentous algae, or fish.
Some are herbivores, grazing on the filamentous algae covering coral reefs, and a few eat seagrasses and algae on reef flats.
Unicellular yeast-like fungi are different from filamentous fungi in that polarized growth is limited to that phase of the cell cycle in which the bud is formed.
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In structure they are expanded or filamentous, nearly always rose-coloured or purple in colour.
Usually the protonema is filamentous and ceases to be evident after the plants have developed.
In mosses a filamentous growth, the protonema, is first formed, and the leafy plants arise upon this.
The first use made of the filamentous matter, was to substitute it for the wadding used in quilted counterpanes.
The filamentous detail of the inner corona, and the faintest outlying extensions or streamers, the eye must still reveal directly.
Siliceous skeletons of chara and filamentous alg were also found upon a close examination in some of these molds.
In a similar way the petals and labellum of Odontoglossum Uro-Skinneri have been found reduced to filamentous processes.
In some they are spherical, in others rod-like, filamentous or perhaps of other forms.
Numerous long, filamentous, red to orange-colored cirri extend nearly the whole length of the body and act as gills.
The external gills are long and filamentous, and the yolk sac is large.
Filamentose, or filamentous, bearing or formed of slender threads.
Major filamentous structured adhesins, Type IV pili are retractile and mediate a mode of surface translocation termed twitching motility.
These predatory fish, in turn, reduce numbers of Grammarus locusta, herbivorous crustaceans which are effective grazers that normally control the filamentous algae.
The antennules of the specimen were densely covered with the filamentous epiphyte, which was expected to change the prawn's behaviour in terms of food and mate perception.
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