Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Second International Congress on Biological and Health Sciences, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye, 24 Şubat 2022, (Özet Bildiri)
The ciliate Pseodoplatyophrya terricola was isolataed from moss samples collected from around the steam
shafts in the Nemrut Caldera. The moss samples were dried in shade for one month and non-flooded Petri
dish cultures were prepared from them. After 5-7 days of preparation of cultures, the ciliates in the fluid
samples taken from the Petri dishes were examined using live and silver impregnation techniques, and their
morphological and morphometric characterizations were revealed. Pseodoplatyophrya terricola is
characterized by 25–30 x 12–18 µm in size, ellipsoidal to ovoid body outline, globular or slightly oval
macronucleus located in center of the cell, one elongated micronucleus adjacent to the macronucleus, one
contractile vacuole located near the posterior end, cortex furrowed along the somatic kinety, cytoplasm
colorless and contains spherical shaped compact food vacuoles, 10–11 somatic kineties with 7–8 µm long cilia,
some somatic kineties (K3, K4) shortened at post oral area, one caudal cilium about 15 µm in length, semicircular paroral membrane with 18–20 basal bodies surrounds the right side of oral area, adoral organelle
consist of 3–4 rows of basal bodies. No extrusome was observed. Although Pseodoplatyophrya terricola has
been isolated from soil samples in several parts of Europe so far, and it was isolated, described and recorded
from moss samples for the first time in Turkey whit the present study.