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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Cilliate eats its own cell contents.
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.
Poor thing! The damaged organism is not a ciliate, but a worm of some kind (possibly a flatworm).
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.
Oh okay. Thanks Bruce:)
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Re: Cilliate eats its own cell contents.
Kind of what I imagine placentophagy to be like. Microplacentophagy!