The peristome is covered on one side by the oral cilia and on the opposite by the ribbed wall. Lamellae from the ribbed wall extend into the nascent food vacuole forming region, the cytopharynx. This ...

High resolution image of the macronucleus which contains microtubules that lie inside a seemingly intact nuclear envelope. Microtubules orient along the axis of macronuclear elongation in the form of ...

Ancistrum is a marine ciliate that inhabits the mantle cavity of mytiliid mussels. This image shows a good view of the macronucleus, mitochondria with tubular cristae, and what are probably flask-shap...

Ancistrum is a marine ciliate that inhabits the mantle cavity of mytiliid mussels. This image is a slightly higher resolution scan of CIL:24921 that shows a good view of the macronucleus and what are ...

A view of the cytoplasm of a green Trichodina that lives on the surface of a freshwater snail collected in central Illinois. In this view the 10 endosymbiotic bacteria are evident as well as an endosy...

Only the macronucleus contains nucleoli which is the site of ribosomal RNA synthesis and ribosome subunit assembly. This EM also contains the distal end of the food vacuole forming cytopharynx which c...

11 micrographs of views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 5 food vacuoles and the edges of 2 more. The connecti...

The macronucleus is the largest organelle in the P. multimicronucleatum cell and can measure 35µm long by 12µm wide. A small fraction of a macronucleus is seen in this micrograph. The chromatin appe...

The figure shows the beginning of the cytopharyngeal ribs of the ribbed wall. The peristome is bordered on one side by the paroral kinety that has 2 rows of basal bodies, of which only one is ciliated...

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...