Ciliates

Fig 1a: Balanion comatum Line drawing of protargol stained cell

Fig 1b: Balanion comatum Line drawing of live cell (from Wulff, 1919)

Fig. 2: Balanion comatum Lugol's fixed cell, lateral view

Fig 3: Balanion comatum Lugol's fixed cell, lateral view

Fig 4: Balanion comatum Lugol's fixed cell, lateral view

Fig 5: Balanion comatum Lugol's fixed and DAPI stained cell, illustrating nuclear shape

Fig 10: Balanion comatum Lugol?s fixed cell

Fig 11: Balanion comatum Lugol?s fixed cell

Fig 12: Balanion comatum Lugol?s fixed cell

Fig 1: Strombidium lynni Line drawings of protargol stained cells, showing kineties, oral structures and nuclei

Fig 2: Strombidium lynni Lugol?s fixed cell, lateral view

Fig 6: Strombidium lynni Protargol stain, ventral view, showing characteristic features

Fig 7: Strombidium lynni Protargol stain, ventral view

Fig 1a Line drawing, showing structure of the epiplasmal platelets.

Fig 1b Line drawing of a protargol stained cell, showing infraciliature and nuclei.

Fig 2: Lugol?s fixed cells, lateral view

Fig 3: Lugol?s fixed cells, lateral view

Fig 4: Lugol?s fixed cells, lateral view

Fig 5: Lugol?s fixed cells, lateral view

Fig 6 Lugol?s fixed and DAPI stained cell (identical to Fig 4), illustrating nuclear shape.

Fig 7,8,9 Protargol-stained cells, lateral views, showing maronucleus (Ma), somatic kineties (K), and oral cilia and kinetosomes (OC and OK).

Fig 7,8,9 Protargol-stained cells, lateral views, showing maronucleus (Ma), somatic kineties (K), and oral cilia and kinetosomes (OC and OK).