Euglena acus

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:01 am

piermicro · Post by **piermicro** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:19 am

Very well.

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 12:07 pm

Excellent!!!
What camera do you use?

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:44 pm

Hello
Very nice

ralfwagner · Post by **ralfwagner** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:23 pm

Great!

It is indeed not easy to catch the flagellum and so I like no 1 + 3 best.

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 11:05 pm

Amazing details

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:44 am

Thanks

Camera: Panasonic Lumix TZ8

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:42 am

Beautiful set!

Rogelio

pwnell · Post by **pwnell** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 3:01 pm

Excellent! What are those cylindrical shapes inside its body?

ralfwagner · Post by **ralfwagner** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 10:20 pm

pwnell wrote:Excellent! What are those cylindrical shapes inside its body?

These are Paramylon bodies, a kind of carbohydrate, starch. Euglena stores its photosynthetic products in this form and these paramylon bodies are characteristic for all Euglenas.

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 11:08 pm

ralfwagner thanks for the professional explanation.
Eugleniny is my favorite micro-organisms

Ecki · Post by **Ecki** » Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:07 am

Nice images!

Just for the record, the species known as Euglena acus (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg 1930 has been moved to a different genus and is now known as
Lepocinclis acus (O. F. Müller) Marin and Melkonian 2003.

The University of Cologne hast quite a big collection of algae strains which they culture and distribute to other scientific institutions. In 2003 the group of Prof. Melkonian, lead by Birger Marin, published a thorough review of the Euglenophytes. Many species have been transferred to other genera and the description of many genera have been emended.

The paper can be found here: http://images.algaebase.org/pdf/AC11010 ... /34464.pdf

Best regards,
Ecki

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:09 am

Thanks