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Mystery Micrograph #07 hints

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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