A freeze-fracture image of a DV-II transforming into a DV-III by rapid fusion of lysosomes with its membrane. The P-face shown here of the early DV-III has abundant IMPs as well as many inward blebs (...

Detail of fractured early Digestion Vacuole-III membrane showing the many IMPs on the P-fracture faces of the lysosomal membranes that had just fused with the DV. The membrane will smooth out as the p...

11 micrographs are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 5 food vacuoles; 3 segments of the macronucleus; per...

Grazing section through an accumulation of uncoated cupulas in the process of attachment to and fusion with a food vacuole membrane. The small round pores apparently represent early stages of fusion o...

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...

Food vacuoles arise from the single membrane that lines the cytopharynx. Vesicles, similar to discoidal vesicles, attach to the cytopharyngeal microtubules (lamellar clumps) that arise from the dorsal...

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...

11 micrographs are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 5 food vacuoles; 3 segments of the macronucleus; per...

Quick-freeze deep-etch image of rows of carrier vesicles lined up along the cytopharyngeal microtubular ribbons. These vesicles arise from early endosomes as clathrin coated vesicles and are about 100...

High resolution image of toxicysts, extrusive organelles, (sometimes called extrusomes in protistan lingo) in the proter (or anterior daughter) of a dividing cell. Toxicysts can be very long and are a...