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Amphileptus pleurosigma
Garden pond,
November 2007 |
Ventral and dorsal a row of vacuoles, eachMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Amphileptus pleurosigma
Garden pond,
November 2007 |
In the middle 2 macronucleii, to the reight the thorn-shaped extrusoms become visible.
They are evenly distributed over the whole plasma.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Amphileptus pleurosigma
Garden pond,
November 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Blepharisma spec.
Culture-material,
June 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Blepharisma spec.
Culture-material,
June 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Blepharisma spec.
Culture-material,
June 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
Phase contrast |
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campanella umbellaria
garden pond,
February 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
normal state |
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campanella umbellaria
garden pond,
February 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
startle response |
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campanella umbellaria
garden pond,
May 2003Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
this video (AVI-format, 1.1 MB) |
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campanella umbellaria
garten pond,
March 2004Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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campanella umbellaria
garden pond,
January 2005 |
this video (AVI-(DIVX)-format, 1.7 MB) shows a swarmer.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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cothurnia annulata
garden pond,
July 2005Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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cothurnia annulata
garden pond,
July 2005 |
video (2,4 MB, divx-format)Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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discomorphella pectinata
garden pond,
July 2006Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
2 pictures stacked with CombineZ5 |
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euplotes spec.
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
May 2006Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Euplotes patella
Botanical garden Uni Duesseldorf,
March 2008Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
Euplotes patella in most cases lives without some symbionts.
Only the individuals that live in sapropel do often show symbiontic green algae |
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Euplotes patella
Botanical garden Uni Duesseldorf,
March 2008Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Frontonia atra
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
April 2007 |
Special characteristic: the brownish granular in the plasma, which cotains symbiontic
ferro-bacteria, accumulating especially in the "head" - region.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Frontonia atra
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
April 2007 |
The contractile vacuole (CV) encircled by their feeding ducts and the food vacuole (FV)
are shown here Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Frontonia atra
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
April 2007 |
An obviously undigestible diatom is releasewd via a vacuole.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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lacrymaria elegans
putrid slime from my garden pond,
September 2006Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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opercularia confusa
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
spring 2001Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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paramecium spec.
garden pond,
March 2007 |
This picture shows the 2 contractile vacuoles, the oral groove with the formation of a new
food vacuole at its end, and the overall surrounding cilia.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Paramecium spec.
Gartenteich,
März 2007 |
In the left part, a little bit hidden by the left contractile vacuole,
the macronucleus and close above a micronucleus
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paramecium spec.
garden pond,
March 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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paramecium bursaria
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
January 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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paramecium bursaria
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
January 2007 |
in phase contrast the overall surrounding cirri become visibleMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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paramecium bursaria
garden pond,
November 2002 |
video, AVI-format, 1,8 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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paramecium spec.
Elfenmeer, a heathland-pond
April 2003 |
the right picture shows the habitusMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Spirostomum ambiguum
garden pond,
April 2007 |
Habitus |
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Spirostomum ambiguum
garden pond,
April 2007 |
long, beads-like macronucleus, phase-contrastMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Spirostomum ambiguum
garden pond,
April 2007 |
end-phase of cell-division, only a small bridge is still connecting the two cells |
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Spirostomum ambiguum
garden pond,
April 2007 |
long, beads-like macronucleus, at the bottom a part of the also very long peristom,
lengthwise striped cell-wall with pigment-granulesMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Spirostomum ambiguum
garden pond,
April 2007Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
Stoma |
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Pseudovorticella monilata
>garden pond,
February 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor coeruleus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
February 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor coeruleus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
February 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor igneus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
stitch from 2 picturesMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor igneus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor igneus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor igneus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
November 2003 |
video, DIVX-AVI-format, 0,7 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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grey stentor
garden pond,
March 2002 |
video, AVI-format, 1,0 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
December 2007 |
Video, WMV-Format, 3,8 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
December 2007 |
video, WMV-Format, 3,8 MB |
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stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
dezember 2006 |
overall viewMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
December 2007 |
Overall view in phase contrast, The whole body surface is covered with cilia,
which are arranged in rows that correspond with striations on the cell body |
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Stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
December 2007 |
Overall view in phase contrastMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
December 2007 |
Overall view in phase contrastMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
dezember 2006 |
coordinated movement of the ciliaeMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
dezember 2006 |
The adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) encircles the thee peristome and winds into an
funnel-shaped part of the oral cavity that leads to the cytostome. |
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stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
dezember 2006 |
The adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) encircles the thee peristome and winds into an
funnel-shaped part of the oral cavity that leads to the cytostome.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stentor polymorphus
garden pond,
dezember 2006 |
The adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) encircles the thee peristome and winds into an
funnel-shaped part of the oral cavity that leads to the cytostome. |
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stentor polymorphus
pond near the Wupper-dam,
May 2006 |
probably a degenerated stentor polymorphus. besides the unusal form
the behavior is more similar to that of a dinoflagellat.
film, AVI-DIVX-format, 1,5 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stichotricha secunda
pond near the Wupper-dam,
May 2006 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Strombidium viride
garden pond
March 2007 |
The green algae in the plasma are not symbiontic zoochlorellas, but intact plastids of eaten algae |
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Strombidium viride
garden pond
March 2007 |
The green algae in the plasma are not symbiontic zoochlorellas, but intact plastids of eaten algae |
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stylonychia
garden pond,
April 2002 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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stylonychia mytilus
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,,
August 2006 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
2 animals in one lorica, here the seldomm form without green zoochlorellas. Characteric
is the valve that closes the lorica when the animals have drwan back.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
2 animals in one lorica, here the seldomm form without green zoochlorellas. Characteric
is the valve that closes the lorica when the animals have drwan back. |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
2 animals in one lorica, here the seldomm form without green zoochlorellas. Characteric
is the valve that closes the lorica when the animals have drwan back.Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
Video (DIVX-format, ~3 MB)Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
2 animals in one loricaMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
2 animals in one lorica, living in symbiosis with green zoochlorellas |
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thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
March 2007 |
video, AVI-DIVX-format, 2,9 MB |
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thuricola folliculata
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
June 2006 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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thuricola folliculata
garden pond,
April 2006 |
video, AVI-DIVX-Format, 1,5 MB |
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thuricola folliculata
garden pond
April 2006 |
video, AVI-DIVX-format, 1,9 MBMicroscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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vaginicola
botanical garden university Duesseldorf,
spring 2001 |
Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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Vorticella spec.
garden pond
April 2007 |
Sometimes Vorticella contracts its stem to a helix. This is done with the aid of the myonem-bundle inside the stem
In this phase-contrast picture you can the myonem-bundle inside the stem and even how it divides into two
different lines when entering the cell-body. |
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vorticella microstoma
garden pond,
September 2006Microscopy, Stereomicroscope, Microfoto |
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vorticella spec.
national horticultural show Duesseldorf,
June 2006 |
Ein Glockentierchen bei der Arbeit
video, wmv-format, 1,6 MB |
