The 11 micrographs of the group are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 1 food vacuole; a segment of the ma...

In one experiment in which electric shock was applied to Paramecium cells to trigger trichocyst discharge the macronucleus in one cell was observed to undergo morphological changes of two types. First...

The contractile vacuole of V. convallaria empties into a convoluted chamber. This chamber is covered by the alveoli and plasma membrane of the pellicle and is open to the cell’s surface via the peri...

11 micrographs of views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 4 food vacuoles, 3 segments of the macronucleus, peri...

Bundles of microtubules arise from along the elaborately woven blanket of the filamentous reticulum that covers the ribbed wall of the right side of the buccal cavity. A bundle forms beneath the botto...

The macronucleus contains microtubules that lie inside a seemingly intact nuclear envelope. Microtubules orient along the axis of macronuclear elongation in the form of small bundles. The section is i...

V. convallaria preserved in collidine buffered fixative (not cacodylate) has a less dense cytoplasm in which oranelles are easier to recognize. The rough ER has vesiculated but this vesiculation enhan...

The contractile vacuole of V. convallaria empties into a convoluted chamber. This chamber is covered by the alveoli and plasma membrane of the pellicle and is open to the cell’s surface via the peri...

During self conjugation two cells from a 6-day old culture come together, bridges are formed between them and haploid products of meiotic division of their micronuclei are exchanged between the mating...

High resolution view of the bundles of microtubules that arise from along the elaborately woven blanket of the filamentous reticulum that covers the ribbed wall of the right side of the buccal cavity....