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Request photos of this creature; extra points if one finds a photo of this creature cannibalizing another of its fellow creatures.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 14:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
I am unclear why collodictyon is only found in Lake As; if so, then why were U. California researchers studying it in the 19th century? And I had thought that microscopes were not powerful enough back then (in 19th century) to see collodictyon, but presumably they were -- able to see a single celled creature with just lenses and such.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 12:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
The lake is properly spelt "Ås". I haven't edited this as it produced a dead link but both this article and the article on lake Ås need to be changed. AJP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.76.34 ( talk) 21:52, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
I've nominated this story / article at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, so all efforts to resolve any issues speedily will be important. __ meco ( talk) 12:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I have reorganised most of the text here to make it resemble something like a WP article.
There are a few issues here. The first is that this organism does appear to be very basal in the eukaryote lineage. It appears to have evolved close to or at the division of most extant eukaryotes into Unikonts and Bikonts. This has been known for over a decade. I have no idea why there has been a press release about this 10 years later but who understands the press? For this reason it does genuinely appear to be important in evolutionary terms and it deserves a better treatment on WP than it has received to date. DrMicro ( talk) 10:55, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The clean up this article has received so far seems to have improved it considerably. I am debating whether or not the tag could now be removed. Any opinions here? DrMicro ( talk) 08:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
This is not the only weird protist known that has yet to be classified. Another is Protaspis grandis and Im sure there are others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrMicro ( talk • contribs) 11:01, May 1, 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please clarify what is meant by the feeding habits quote.
It seems (if I read it correctly) to say that when the collodictyon is moribund then it pushes everything out of its body, and I'm guessing the quote is suggesting that the feeding habits look similar - but dying collodictyon are distinguished from feeding collodictyon by noticing they are wafting food inward with their pseudopoda?? Is that what the paragraph means ?
Thanks in advance. EdwardLane ( talk) 10:25, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I changed the "Kingdom" from "Protista" to "?" because said genus has not been assigned to a particular kingdom and Protista is not a valid kingdom (not monophyletic). In taxonomy, I strongly dislike using non-monophyletic groups; I even find treating Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates; deer, cattle, pigs, camels, etc.) as a valid taxon, unacceptable unless whales are included. Does everyone approve of my edit?-- Solomonfromfinland ( talk) 11:04, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to suggest taking the generic argument to the wikiproject microbiology talk page, but to address the issue Graeme Bartlett mentioned then putting a comment such as <!-- this should probably remain as a question mark, see discussion on talk page --> next to the change in the article would leave the article apparently unchanged but give anyone thinking about editting the question mark back to protista (or whatever) a warning and allow the change to remain until a consensus is arrived at. EdwardLane ( talk) 10:56, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 19:18, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Request photos of this creature; extra points if one finds a photo of this creature cannibalizing another of its fellow creatures.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 14:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
I am unclear why collodictyon is only found in Lake As; if so, then why were U. California researchers studying it in the 19th century? And I had thought that microscopes were not powerful enough back then (in 19th century) to see collodictyon, but presumably they were -- able to see a single celled creature with just lenses and such.-- Tomwsulcer ( talk) 12:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
The lake is properly spelt "Ås". I haven't edited this as it produced a dead link but both this article and the article on lake Ås need to be changed. AJP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.76.34 ( talk) 21:52, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
I've nominated this story / article at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, so all efforts to resolve any issues speedily will be important. __ meco ( talk) 12:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
I have reorganised most of the text here to make it resemble something like a WP article.
There are a few issues here. The first is that this organism does appear to be very basal in the eukaryote lineage. It appears to have evolved close to or at the division of most extant eukaryotes into Unikonts and Bikonts. This has been known for over a decade. I have no idea why there has been a press release about this 10 years later but who understands the press? For this reason it does genuinely appear to be important in evolutionary terms and it deserves a better treatment on WP than it has received to date. DrMicro ( talk) 10:55, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The clean up this article has received so far seems to have improved it considerably. I am debating whether or not the tag could now be removed. Any opinions here? DrMicro ( talk) 08:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
This is not the only weird protist known that has yet to be classified. Another is Protaspis grandis and Im sure there are others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrMicro ( talk • contribs) 11:01, May 1, 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please clarify what is meant by the feeding habits quote.
It seems (if I read it correctly) to say that when the collodictyon is moribund then it pushes everything out of its body, and I'm guessing the quote is suggesting that the feeding habits look similar - but dying collodictyon are distinguished from feeding collodictyon by noticing they are wafting food inward with their pseudopoda?? Is that what the paragraph means ?
Thanks in advance. EdwardLane ( talk) 10:25, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I changed the "Kingdom" from "Protista" to "?" because said genus has not been assigned to a particular kingdom and Protista is not a valid kingdom (not monophyletic). In taxonomy, I strongly dislike using non-monophyletic groups; I even find treating Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates; deer, cattle, pigs, camels, etc.) as a valid taxon, unacceptable unless whales are included. Does everyone approve of my edit?-- Solomonfromfinland ( talk) 11:04, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Just wanted to suggest taking the generic argument to the wikiproject microbiology talk page, but to address the issue Graeme Bartlett mentioned then putting a comment such as <!-- this should probably remain as a question mark, see discussion on talk page --> next to the change in the article would leave the article apparently unchanged but give anyone thinking about editting the question mark back to protista (or whatever) a warning and allow the change to remain until a consensus is arrived at. EdwardLane ( talk) 10:56, 21 May 2013 (UTC)