Image of Ephydatia fluviatilis

Description:

Scale bars indicate 50 µm (1), 25 µm (2, 4–6), 10 µm (3).

Six images. The coverslip print has disintegrated the sponge, making the amoeboid, totipotent cells visible. Totipotent means embryonic in the sense that each of these cells is capable of developing into a new sponge through successive mitotic divisions. Note that each cell has zoochlorellae!

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Place name: Creek in Oder valley 100 km north east of Berlin (Germany)  
Latitude: 53.135032     Longitude: 14.348738

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF image.

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