Sathrophilus vernalis;several specimens concentrating around a detritus particle. |
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Sathrophilus vernalis |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; focus plane on the cortex with ??mitochondria?? |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; focus plane on the cilia |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; focus plane on the oral region. Also visible is the caudal flagellum. |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; specimen with no distance to the coverslide, so the cilia are compressed. Focus plane on the anterior part / oral region. |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; specimen heavily compressed by coverslide; focus plane on the macronucleus (MN), oral region (OR) and contractile vacuole (CV) |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; isolated macronucleus, different focus planes. There seem to be granules inside the macronuleus. |
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Sathrophilus vernalis; this specimen has been treated by destilled water. This leads to osmotic shock so that the plasma flows out when the cell bursts. The remaining cortex is shown here. |
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Location (1): Hattingen-Oberstüter, NRW, Germany, forest |
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Habitat: treehole, detritus |
Date: 25.02.2021 (1); |
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