portrait
Description:
Phase contrast image of living cell. The mouth and some of the associated ciliature can be seen upper left, the surface is coated with somatic cilia that are used for cell locomotion, there is a contractile vacuole near the posterior end of the cell, and a light-coloured macronucleus near the centre of the cell. the other vacuoles are food vacuoles (phagosomes)
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Hymenostomatida
- Tetrahymenina
- Tetrahymenidae
- Tetrahymena
- Tetrahymena pyriformis
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- cc-by-nc
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- D. J. Patterson.
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