Cilliate eats its own cell contents.

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Mandintine
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Cilliate eats its own cell contents.

#1 Post by Mandintine » Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:00 pm

I think I accidently cut the cell in half when I qas prepping the slide. You can see his eating his own cytoplasm and the food vacules floating around.
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Bruce Taylor
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.

#2 Post by Bruce Taylor » Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:21 pm

Poor thing! :) The damaged organism is not a ciliate, but a worm of some kind (possibly a flatworm).
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Mandintine
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.

#3 Post by Mandintine » Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:14 pm

Oh okay. Thanks Bruce:)
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apochronaut
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.

#4 Post by apochronaut » Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:59 pm

Kind of what I imagine placentophagy to be like. Microplacentophagy!
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