encysting cell
Description:
Transmission electron micrograph of a thin section of an encysting Actinophrys. It shows the developing flat siliceous plates under the surface of the cell. Mucus has already started to appear around the outside of the cell, there are numerous dark extrusomes lying adjacent to the cell membrane. Food vacuoles and lipid droplets fill much of the cytoplasm between the central nucleus and the forming cyst wall.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Stramenopiles (heterokont)
- Oomycota (oomycetes)
- Actinophryida
- Actinophrys
- Actinophrys sol
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- D. J. Patterson.
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