Image of Mougeotia C. Agardh 1824

Description:

Sampling date 10/2011. Scale bars indicate 50 µm.

Three images.

First:Filament shortly after starting observation.Second:After a longer observation time, the chloroplasts react to the too intense light exposure and rotate perpendicular to the direction of the light.Third:Single cell showing the chloroplast with four pyrenoids and the cell nucleus.Fourth:Cells that had started the conjugation process with parasites (bright spheres).

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Place name: Pond near the Bodden bay Schwarzer Peter, Hiddensee (German Baltic Sea) 
Latitude: 54.514946     Longitude: 13.082471

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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