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Image of Peridinium gatunense

Description:

This cell of Peridinium gatunense is about to form a cyst in a process called encystation. Note the two red bodies within the protoplast, and the nearly perfect circular shape of the cyst emerging out of the thecae.

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Alla Alster; Tamar Zohary
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