Which organelle?

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Which organelle?

#1 Post by Plasmid » Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:47 am

This Ciliate (Vorticella type?) Was recorded autolysin, now I've encountered this before and im aware that the organelles sort of spill out after wall rupture,... my question is what are the round fast moving things coming out of it at 5:08?
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Bruce Taylor
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Re: Which organelle?

#2 Post by Bruce Taylor » Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:42 pm

I see a lot of granular matter in the cytoplasm, jiggling in the usual way (Brownian motion). The particles could include all sorts of cellular stuff...secretory vesicles and their products, ribosomes, ingested material, endosymbionts, etc. At 5:08, a membrane bursts and some of them spill into an adjacent space. I don't see any way to identify these particular granules by light microscopy.

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