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This image was made from samples taken during a scientific cruise in the Pacific. Water was filtered to concentrate the organisms that were present, then dried onto a thin sheet of plastic and then shadowed with a fine layer of metal to provide contrast. The preparation was then observed with an electron-microscope. This technique has been used to document the diversity of marine microbes, especially, protists in the oceans.
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This image was made from samples taken during a scientific cruise in the Pacific. Water was filtered to concentrate the organisms that were present, then dried onto a thin sheet of plastic and then shadowed with a fine layer of metal to provide contrast. The preparation was then observed with an electron-microscope. This technique has been used to document the diversity of marine microbes, especially, protists in the oceans.
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Pseudopleurochloris (sue-dough-plue-row-chlo-riss). xanthophyte, one of the autotrophic stramenopile taxa. This genus is one which is found predominantly as a coccoid (rounded) form. Peripheral chlorophyll a and c containing plastids. Differential interference contrast.
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Mischococcus (mish-owe-cock-us) (maybe) a chrysophyte stramenopile in which the cells are located in a branching mucoid matrix. Identification tentative. Phase contrast.
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Ophiocytium (off-ee-o-sit-ee-um), a xanthophyte, one of the stramenopiles. There is considerable variation in form within this group, this form often being considered to be coccoid - here used to mean not just round cells but cells without cross walls, elongate curving or spiral, typically attaching with a stalk. Two or more nuclei, two or more plastids and, as is typical of xanthophytes, with a two part wall. Phase contrast.
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Ophiocytium (off-ee-o-sit-ee-um), a xanthophyte, one of the stramenopiles. There is considerable variation in form within this group, this form often being considered to be coccoid - here used to mean not just round cells but cells without cross walls, elongate curving or spiral, typically attaching with a stalk. Two or more nuclei, two or more plastids and, as is typical of xanthophytes, with a two part wall. DIfferential interference contrast.
