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Observations on Pandorina spec.

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Pandorina Bory, 1826

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym: n.a.

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	DOF image depicting cell surface. We can see eye spots, contractile vacuoles and storage particles.
Second:	Optical cross-section showing nuclei, pyrenoids with starch envelope, eye spots and storage particles.

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Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807 Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

Sample material courtesy of AG Boenigk, University Duisburg-Essen.

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Two images.

First:	DOF image showing the cell surface. We can see eyespots, contractile vacuoles (black arrow), storage particles and holes in the mucilaginous coat, the endpoints of the channels from the contractile vacuoles to the outside (white arrow).
Second:	Optical cross-section showing nuclei, pyrenoids with starch envelope and stortage particles.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807 Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

Three images. Reproductive stage.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807 Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600 D. DOF images.

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.

Seven images.

Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!

Place name: Protist culture CCAC University Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Latitude: 51.463807 Longitude: 7.005321

Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Canon EOS 600D. DOF images.

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Observations on Pandorina spec.

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