Crawling ciliate
Crawling ciliate
This particular Ciliate has 3-4 long cilia that was using to crawl around against the cover slip.... Is it Euplotes elegans?
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Bruce Taylor
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Re: Crawling ciliate
Fun video! 
The 9 frontoventral cirri are nicely recorded, but I think we still don't have enough information for a species-level identification. We don't know the size of the cells, and we don't see the macronucleus. We don't see dorsal ciliation and have no information about the silverline system (argyrome, a pattern exposed by silver staining), or the habitat. So, I would simply call it Euplotes sp. I should add that a few of the labels are somewhat inaccurate, and the premise--a supposed conflict between individuals--is rather fanciful! 
These cells are not fighting at all.
The 9 frontoventral cirri are nicely recorded, but I think we still don't have enough information for a species-level identification. We don't know the size of the cells, and we don't see the macronucleus. We don't see dorsal ciliation and have no information about the silverline system (argyrome, a pattern exposed by silver staining), or the habitat. So, I would simply call it Euplotes sp. I should add that a few of the labels are somewhat inaccurate, and the premise--a supposed conflict between individuals--is rather fanciful! These cells are not fighting at all.-
DonSchaeffer
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Re: Crawling ciliate
What a great capture!