tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post3185999535645079251..comments2022-12-09T08:52:54.666-08:00Comments on Skeptic Wonder: Mystery Micrograph #06Psi Wavefunctionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-15196304307692820912009-10-27T02:10:12.080-07:002009-10-27T02:10:12.080-07:00No. Just one. The hints had rather given it away. ...No. Just one. The hints had rather given it away. And once I saw that big dorsal (anterior?) concavity on <i>Cochlosoma</i>, I knew it was a match.Christopher Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-14996025478213880192009-10-27T01:52:49.742-07:002009-10-27T01:52:49.742-07:00Yes!
Did you google -all- of them? =P
I now owe ...Yes! <br />Did you google -all- of them? =P<br /><br />I now owe Christopher a beer. Although, considering how much time I'm spending on the wretched Heterolobosea at the moment...grrr. *growls*Psi Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-90258998242509559442009-10-27T01:32:57.581-07:002009-10-27T01:32:57.581-07:00It's Cochlosoma.It's <i>Cochlosoma</i>.Christopher Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11075565866351612441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-3234870326710082512009-10-21T23:36:16.212-07:002009-10-21T23:36:16.212-07:00Cenozoic Radiolarians (my phd is precisely on anta...Cenozoic Radiolarians (my phd is precisely on antarctic neogene radiolarians).<br />I did look at diatoms, silicoflagellates, synuraceans (or at least i think they were) and ebridians (well, one ebridian) during my Msc so technically any siliceous protist but now i work exclusively on radiolarians (and a couple of phaeodarians that're in the way); at least at the moment.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01872879188310537971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-64840623190461927532009-10-21T21:10:04.733-07:002009-10-21T21:10:04.733-07:00Sorry, it's not Trichomonas - that one's o...Sorry, it's not <i>Trichomonas</i> - that one's one flagellum short ^_~<br /><br />Actually, it's neighbouring clade has a genus name reflecting that fact. /hint<br /><br />And not every trichomonad tree has this one, so don't be discouraged - keep looking! ^_^<br /><br /><br />@Johan - micropaleontology is awesome! I'm gonna have to be really careful when I finally get around to writing up a few posts on that topic then... =P Which groups are you looking at?Psi Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-18919489820867658422009-10-21T13:58:34.078-07:002009-10-21T13:58:34.078-07:00It is vaginalis! I found an almost identical pictu...It is vaginalis! I found an almost identical picture here: http://www.slomsic.org/projekti/aids/virus/doc/Spolno_prenosljive_bolezni/prazivali.html <br />and then ran the text through google translator! Apparently it's written in slovakian :)Lab Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962574174521597312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-80857479237823704982009-10-21T13:54:46.285-07:002009-10-21T13:54:46.285-07:00I sponged off Johan's brains and typed 'tr...I sponged off Johan's brains and typed 'trichomonad' into the NCBI taxonomy, then went through every one of them (all ten heh) with google image search. None to the pictures I got back looked anything as *cylindrical* as yours...<br /><br />I'll stab a guess at trichomonad vaginalis though, for no other reason other than that it made me with I'd hit the safe-search.<br /><br />(and if its tenax I'll be irritated...that was my first guess)Lab Rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07962574174521597312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-68838529617834888712009-10-21T03:07:47.230-07:002009-10-21T03:07:47.230-07:00No, I'm a phd student in micropalaeontology (i...No, I'm a phd student in micropalaeontology (i guess you can call that palaeoprotistology, though).<br />And that's the reason why i won't try for the genus ^^. My knowledge of these non-fossilizable groups is really limited.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01872879188310537971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-70937751806362876542009-10-21T02:05:25.643-07:002009-10-21T02:05:25.643-07:00Yes!
Wanna try for genus? (it's quite distin...Yes! <br /><br />Wanna try for genus? (it's quite distinctive...)<br /><br />Also, are you a protistologist by any chance? ^_^Psi Wavefunctionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10829712736757471647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643556495084083743.post-7185601917254421402009-10-21T00:32:33.291-07:002009-10-21T00:32:33.291-07:00Is it a trichomonad?Is it a trichomonad?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01872879188310537971noreply@blogger.com