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A high resolution view of a dividing Didinium nasutum. This large ciliate is capable of engulfing Paramecium. It has a thick ectoplasm containing numerous mucocysts embedded in its extensive epiplasm. It's external surface is coated with a layer of bacteria in this dividing cell. The cytoplasm is relatively compact under the conditions of fixation used. Electron opaque vacuoles are scattered in the cytoplasm. (For a more detailed report see Wessenberg and Antipa, Protistologica 4:427-447, 1968). TEM taken on 5/9/69 by M. Sage with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 3,120X. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Sage, M.; Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:38862, Didinium nasutum, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0ZC8251
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