tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post1824669912663350877..comments2022-12-09T08:52:54.666-08:00Comments on Skeptic Wonder: Phylomon, Protémon and "5 favourite organisms" memePsi Wavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-12649972670343965662010-01-15T12:22:06.480-08:002010-01-15T12:22:06.480-08:00Streptomyces is bloody awesome -- a multicellular ...Streptomyces is bloody awesome -- a multicellular prokaryote!<br /><br />Although that shouldn't be too shocking, on a second thought. Nuclei aren't really a prerequisite to multicellularity...<br /><br />Have you heard of <i>epulopiscium</i>?<br /><br />@Opisthokont: Euplotes is ADORABLE! =D I love watching it whirl its cirri around on the slide...OMG so cute it makes me talk like a total valley girl ditz! <br /><br />Do you have videos of Apusomonas?<br /><br />And I had difficulty picking the 5 too, so I did it semi-randomly. Except for Warnowiids. Nothing, ever, can beat unicellular dinoflagellates WITH IMAGE-FORMING CAMERA EYES!Psi Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-75488955178685943642010-01-15T12:17:13.780-08:002010-01-15T12:17:13.780-08:00btw, I thought you said you were no good at drawin...btw, I thought you said you were no good at drawing! That picture is AWESOME. My one attempt at drawing E. coli was basically and eye surrounded by a circle. With flagella.Lab Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962574174521597312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-47365392692323008612010-01-15T12:15:54.885-08:002010-01-15T12:15:54.885-08:00Oooh...five favourite organisms...I'll go with...Oooh...five favourite organisms...I'll go with my five favouite bacteria then, seeing as I'm sure dolphins and mole rats have already been suggested:<br /><br />1) E. coli. It's got to be. Worlds most studied organism, how could it *not* feature.<br /><br />2) Bdellovibrio bacteriovous. It's a bacteria that lives INSIDE other baacteria and is thus awesome for many reasons. <br /><br />3) Stromatilites. OK, these aren't technically bacteria, their large 'mats' of bacterial growth all layered up. Basically like a giant bacterial city.<br /><br />4)TNT-metabolising Pseudomonas species. They EAT explosives. Don't get much cooler than that.<br /><br />5)Joint fifth to Streptomyces coelicolor and Baccilus Subtilis; because I'm working on strep at the moment and I really *want* to end up working on B. subilis in the near future. So my loyalties are torn.Lab Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962574174521597312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-8791826249596584982010-01-13T08:23:53.521-08:002010-01-13T08:23:53.521-08:00Aargh! So many organisms -- how to choose?!
The ...Aargh! So many organisms -- how to choose?!<br /><br />The first candidates to spring to mind are the ones that I'm working on: <i>Malawimonas</i>, <i>Ancyromonas</i>, <i>Amastigomonas</i>, <i>Breviata</i>. But I spent two years playing with <i>Saccinobaculus</i>, which is an astounding bug, and I would be remiss to ignore <i>Apusomonas</i>, which is easily the <em>cutest</em> thing that I have ever seen under a microscope. (The opportunity to test the conviction that non-geeks would agree with me has, sadly, yet to arrive.) And then there are plenty of others, the ones you list (well, aside from <i>Arabidopsis</i>) being a fantastic starting point (well, and I think I would choose <i>Euplotes</i> as my representative ciliate). Really, the reason why I am studying eukaryotic <em>diversity</em> is because I cannot make up my mind on questions like these!Opisthokonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962363962978125098noreply@blogger.com