Difflugia

Ecki · Post by **Ecki** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:59 pm

Although this may look like an agglutinated chunk of debris, these are shells of Difflugia amoebae. As determining the species in this genus is harder than understanding relativity theory, I will not even try. I am always amazed how massive and tank-like these shells appear in the electron microscope.

More Diffluginas can be found here: http://penard.de/Amoebozoa/Tubulinea/Difflugina/

As always, these images are a team effort of Steffen and myself.

Best regards,
Ecke

Marek Mis · Post by **Marek Mis** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:08 am

Incredible and very impressive images !

Marek

carlos.uruguay · Post by **carlos.uruguay** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:51 am

Wonderful. As usual.
Huge difference from what we observe in brightfield or DIC!!
How will be these organisms really?!

fpelectronica · Post by **fpelectronica** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:12 am

Jacek · Post by **Jacek** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 10:40 am

Wow

Olympusman · Post by **Olympusman** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 11:02 am

Amazing. What is remarkable about testate amoebae is that for a creature that does not have a brain, their DNA is capable of gluing together these structures and that the design is specific to the species.

Mike

Sumguy01 · Post by **Sumguy01** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 8:25 pm

Super.
Thanks for sharing.

Ecki · Post by **Ecki** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 2:10 am

Thank you!

Best,
Ecki

Cyk-Cyk · Post by **Cyk-Cyk** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 3:02 am

Ecki,

This electron microscope is because of your work, or you are so into microscopy that you have one on your desk?

RogelioMoreno · Post by **RogelioMoreno** » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:47 am

Wow, amazing!

Rogelio

vasselle · Post by **vasselle** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:40 am

Bonjour
Superbes photos
Merci pour le partage
Cordialement seb

piermicro · Post by **piermicro** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 6:39 am

Very nice.

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