Ciliate eating noodle DSC 1545

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Ciliate cell (with green algal endosymbionts) feeding on a filamentous bacterium. The ciliate appears to struggle with consuming the bacterium because it is too long to be engulfed in one go.

Date: 23 Aug 2011

Location: Euglena-rich pond in the botany garden, National University of Singapore.

Microscope: Bright-field with closed condenser aperture.

Camera: Nikon D7000

Collector: Brandon Seah

Scale: Field of view is about 240 micrometers wide

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Brandon Seah

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