Pregnant Tardigrade?
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Pregnant Tardigrade?
The image was taken with a 20x objective on a Canon DSLR in AFocal mode on my BH2.
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
Think you may be right. Amazing sight!Pregnant Tardigrade?
Image is from: https://sites.google.com/site/tardigrad ... production
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
Some company should make egg cartons shaped like tartigrades. Then there would be A grade, C grade and ....
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
Neat find. As 75RR's link says, many tardigrades lay their eggs inside a moult; that's what you have here. The little stub appendages confirm it came from a tardigrade, but the reason the interior is so empty is that the mother is not here. There are only the five new ones she has left behind.
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I think the Tardigrades are after me! I found what I think is another egg mass yesterday in a sample from the same pond as the earlier one. This time there is no sign of a moult and there are at least a dozen eggs.
The image was taken with a 20x objective on a Canon DSLR in AFocal mode on my BH2. The egg mass is roughly 350um in length. It is a stack of 35 images
Michael
The image was taken with a 20x objective on a Canon DSLR in AFocal mode on my BH2. The egg mass is roughly 350um in length. It is a stack of 35 images
Michael
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
Very nice find. Are you going to keep the eggs until the cubs hatch?
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
I hope so! I returned it to my mini-aquarium and I'm letting nature take its course.
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Re: Pregnant Tardigrade?
Hey Mike, Any updates on this?MikeBradley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:27 amMicro_4129a1000.jpgI seem to have captured a heavily pregnant tardigrade. The 5 eggs in the ovary are filling the internal space rather completely! The specimen came from a sample taken in sunken leaf litter at the edge of a pond in coastal BC, under ice for the last week or so.
The image was taken with a 20x objective on a Canon DSLR in AFocal mode on my BH2.
Michael
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