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Mystery Micrograph #07 hints

By Psi Wavefunction on Sunday, November 01, 2009
You guys need to get on this, the poor organism feels neglected and may soon develop abandonment issues. You must save its mental well-being by solving its little identity crisis. That would make you its personal hero - wouldn't that be an awesome feeling?

An SEM, and a glimpse of its habitat:

(scalebars: A - 2um, B - 200um; to be referenced later)

The thing in the SEM is a resting stage.

EDIT 02.11.09: This is giving it away big time - it's a Rhizarian...
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9 comments:

  1. OpisthokontNovember 1, 2009 at 8:47:00 AM PST

    Would it be too much to ask what "DE" stands for?

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  2. Psi WavefunctionNovember 1, 2009 at 11:45:00 PM PST

    'Digestive Epithelia'

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  3. UnknownNovember 1, 2009 at 11:55:00 PM PST

    Is it a dinoflagellate cyst?

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  4. Psi WavefunctionNovember 2, 2009 at 1:33:00 AM PST

    No, but it is a cyst/spore-like structure. And it is somewhat close to the larger group of which the dinoflagellates are a member of. This group fairly recently migrated over there, by the way [/big hint]

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  5. UnknownNovember 2, 2009 at 11:42:00 PM PST

    So, i guess it's an Haplosporidia; Minchinia, maybe?

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  6. Psi WavefunctionNovember 3, 2009 at 12:03:00 AM PST

    =D Yes! You read JEM, don't you? =P

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  7. Psi WavefunctionNovember 3, 2009 at 12:05:00 AM PST

    (I'll write it up when I'm not falling asleep at the keyboard (and scope), ie tomorrow or something...)

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  8. UnknownNovember 3, 2009 at 12:06:00 AM PST

    I do but actually I found this one here: http://research.amnh.org/~siddall/haplosporidia/morph.html

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  9. UnknownNovember 3, 2009 at 12:09:00 AM PST

    oh ok it's on the cover (i read it online).

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