plastid
Description:
Rhodomonas (row-doe-moan-ass) salina, a cryptomonad / cryptophyte alga, with red coloured plastids, two flagella arise in a wide channel which opens near the front of the cell. The cell surface is underlain by a layer of stiffening plates, and the texture of these can be seen in places in this micrograph. Differential interference microscopy.
data on this strain.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Cryptophyceae
- Pyrenomonadales
- Pyrenomonadaceae
- Rhodomonas
- Rhodomonas salina
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