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Conjugating pair of the tintinnid Salpingella decurtata
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John Dolan
Registered: September 2000
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Ciliate protists 'conjugate' to recombine genetic material. This pair of tintinnids was caught in the act in a sample from the NW Medit. Sea and preserved with lugol's fixative.
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| · Date: October 15, 2007 · Views: 14,630 · Filesize: 22.5kb, 837.6kb · Dimensions: 529 x 2481 ·
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Keywords: plankton, protist, ciliate, microzooplankton, sexual reproduction
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