Ciliophora

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 100 µm.Two images.Platycola logicollis has mounted its lorica on a Java moss trunc. Overview taken with a stereo microscope.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Two images.Sequence containing two optical cross-sections through the lorica mounted on a java moss trunk with the long side facing the viewer. The neck and opening of the bottle are detailed depicted.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Two images.Sequence containing two optical cross-sections through the lorica mounted on a java moss trunk with the long side facing the viewer. The neck and opening of the bottle are detailed depicted.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 100 µm.Two images.Platycola logicollis has mounted its lorica on a Java moss trunc. Overview taken with a stereo microscope.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Stereo microscope Olympus SZX16/Planapo 2.0x, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Three images.First:Complete representation of the two trophonts and their lorica.Second:Optical cross-section through the lorica.Third:Optical cross-section through one trophont.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Seven images, six of them in a slide changer.First (in the slide changer):Complete representation of the trophont and its lorica.Second:Optical cross-section showing the elliptical shaped vestibulum.Third and fourth:Optical cross-section. The sectional plane is placed in such a way that the striation on the cell body is partially shown (arrows and insets in fourth image). Objective 40x/1.1 water immersion.Fifth and sixth:Optical cross-section through the cell and the lorica showing several parts of the worm-shaped macronucleus traversing almost the entire cell (arrows and insets in sixth image). The brightly glowing dots in the cell body are mitochondria.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Tropical freshwater aquariumLatitude: 54.3018013     Longitude: 10.07120132Microscope Zeiss Axioplan, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 09/2022. Scale bar indicates 25 µm.Cothurnia annulata as aufwuchs on the bluegreen alga.Place name: Preflooder south of the village Kloster, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea)  Latitude: 54.57611642     Longitude: 13.11450005Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 18/2018. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.Cothurnia annulata as aufwuchs on the red alga Polysiphonia fibrillosa.Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF image.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 09/2011. Scale bar indicates 50 µm.Cothurnia annulata as aufwuchs on a branch of the green alga Cladophora spec. accompanied by colonies of Zoogloea ramigera (Eubacteria).Place name: Lake Constance vicinity of Bodman (Germany)  Latitude: 47.796494     Longitude: 9.047656Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 05/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)  Latitude: 53.135032     Longitude: 14.348738Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 10 µm (2).Two images. Vorticella convallaria on the cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 10 µm (2).Two images. Vorticella convallaria on the cyanobacteria Nodularia spumigena.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.Two images. Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 10 µm.Two images. Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 250 µm.Five images.During vegetative reproduction, swarmers are formed. The series shows the swarmers detaching. The mother cell then perishes.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss STEMI SV6, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page

Scale bars indicate 50 µm.Three images.Please click on < or > on the image edges or on the dots at the bottom edge of the images to browse through the slides!Place name: Hiddensee Bodden (Germany)  Latitude: 54.582633     Longitude: 13.115051Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus OM-D M5 MKII. DOF images.© Wolfgang Bettighofer,images under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA).For permission to use of (high resolution) images please contact postmaster@protisten.de.For further information about the image, please click here: Link to protisten.de page