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Oral trichites (yellow) and dikinetids of undulating membrane (red)

Image of Holophrya ovum Ehrenberg 1831

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The yellow arrowead indicates the faintle visible anterior ends of the trichites supporting the cytopharynx. the red arrowhead indicates the dikinetids of the undulating membrane. Only the dikinetids on the left of the cytostome are stained here. Stained by the silver carbonate technique (see Foissner, W. Europ. J. Protistol., 27:313-330;1991). Brightfield.

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