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in vivo with ingested Anabaena

Image of Plagiopyla nasuta

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Portrait of left (ventral) surface of Plagiopyla nasuta (Stein, 1860), a sapropelic plagiopylid ciliate. An ingested trichome (filament) of the cyanobacterium, Anabaena, is seen in a large food vacuole. From bottom sediment of organically enriched standing freshwater near Boise, Idaho. DIC.

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William Bourland
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