filaments
Description:
Oscillatoria (oss-sill-at-oar-ee-a) (tentative identification) upper filament with gas vacuoles - protein inclusions which are not easily distinguished from membrane bound compartments which distinguish eukaryotes. To get to a correct identification. care needs to be taken to check if ALL cells have the inclusions. Gas vesicles tend not to be present in all cells. Differential interference contrast.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Bacteria
- Cyanobacteria
- Oscillatoriales
- Oscillatoriaceae
- Terrabacteria
- Cyanobacteria/Melainabacteria group
- Oscillatoriophycideae
- Oscillatoria
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- Michele Bahr and David Patterson
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