Euplotidium

{{Short description|Genus of single-celled organisms}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Euplotidium | authority = Noland, 1937<ref>{{cite journal |title=Observations on marine ciliates of the Gulf Coast of Florida |first=LE |last=Noland |journal=Transactions of the American Microscopical Society |date=1937 |jstor=3222944 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=160–171|doi=10.2307/3222944 }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''Euplotidium itoi'' * ''Euplotidium prosaltans'' Tuffrau, 1985<ref>{{cite journal |title=Une nouvelle espèce du genre Euplotidium Noland 1937: ''Euplotidium proraltans'' n. sp.(cilié hypotriche) |first=M |last=Tuffrau |journal=Cahiers de biologie marine |date=1985 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=53–62 |issn=0007-9723}}</ref> }}

'''''Euplotidium''''' is a genus of ciliates. Species form symbiotic relations with bacteria in structures named ''Epixenosomes''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Petroni |first1=G. |last2=Spring |first2=S. |last3=Schleifer |first3=K.H. |last4=Verni |first4=F. |last5=Rosati |first5=G. |title=Defensive extrusive ectosymbionts of Euplotidium (Ciliophora) that contain microtubule-like structures are bacteria related to Verrucomicrobia |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=1813–17 |date=2000 |doi=10.1073/pnas.030438197 |pmid=10660683 |pmc=26518|bibcode=2000PNAS...97.1813P |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=G |last=Rosati |title=Epixenosomes: symbionts of the hypotrich ciliate ''Euplotidium itoi'' |journal=Symbiosis |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |date=1999 |issn=0334-5114 |url=}}</ref>

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Category:Hypotrichea Category:Ciliate genera Category:Symbiosis