Bdelloid rotifer

[Charles Krebs]

Some of the first amazing creatures I encountered when I started looking through the microscope a few years back were a group of Bdelloid rotifers. Almost immediately I started working on an electronic flash arrangement so I could better see and understand the motion of the cilia. I must have thousands of shots of "cilia", but I can't pass it up... here's a recent one.

[Ken Ramos]

This is an eriee shot, with each cilium being more clearly seen than that of the Stentor with the rotation of each indiviual cilium still being somewhat presented. Beautiful