portrait, frustule
Description:
Diatoma (die-at-home-a ... ish), filamentous centric diatom. Cells are not circular in cross section but compressed. Cell with internal strengthening ridges. Many small peripheral chloroplasts and a central nucleus. May form very long filaments, this sample collected from a large (easily visible with the naked eye) clump. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Ochrophyta (Ochrophyte)
- Bacillariophyta (diatoms)
- Fragilariophyceae
- Fragilariophycidae
- Fragilariales
- Fragilariaceae
- Diatoma
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Diatomista
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- Michele Bahr and David Patterson
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