Didinium attacks Paramecium. Also showing many discharged trichocysts and metachronous waves of cilia in the two characteristic ciliary girdles of Didinium nasutum and on Paramecium. A series of captu...

Didinium captures Paramecium. A moment after initial contact when toxicysts enter Paramecium. The strand of toxicysts can be seen between the two organisms, and Didinium will use the anchored toxicyst...

A high resolution view of a dividing Didinium nasutum. This large ciliate is capable of engulfing Paramecium. It has a thick ectoplasm containing numerous mucocysts embedded in its extensive epiplasm....

Lamellae of cytopharynx in the opisthe of a dividing cell. This cytopharynx is not yet functional and lacks most of the medium dense vesicles that accumulate between the lamellae. Toxicysts are presen...

Didinium captures Paramecium. The cytostome opens at the end of the proboscis to accept its prey. Also showing metachronous waves of cilia within the two characteristic ciliary girdles of Didinium nas...

Didinium captures Paramecium. A moment after initial contact when toxicysts enter Paramecium. The strand of toxicysts can be seen between the two organisms, and Didinium will use the anchored toxicyst...

A high resolution tangential view of the surface of a non-dividing cell shows several ribbons of microtubules between the alveolar sac and the epiplasm. The thick fibrous layer associated with the epi...

Food vacuole of Didinium. The food vacuole contains both exploded and unexploded trichocysts of Paramecium. Further details available at Wessenberg, H. and Antipa, G. 1968. Studies on Didinium nasutum...

Cortex and cytoplasm of Didinium. This cell cortex image includes the extrusive organelles mucocysts involved in cyst formation and one cyrtocyst of unknown function. Also, a few ciliated basal bodies...

Cortex and food vacuole of Didinium. The food vacuole contains unexploded trichocysts of Paramecium. Further details available at Wessenberg, H. and Antipa, G. 1968. Studies on Didinium nasutum. I. St...