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Glaucoma (glaw-comb-a) is a tetrahymenine ciliate (very closely related to Tetrahymena). It is flattened, but is made distinctive because the three membranelles in the mouth are very strongly developed. Eats bacteria, very obvious here in the food vacuoles. Large homogeneous region to the lower right is the macronucleus. Phase contrast. This picture was taken by David Patterson and Aimlee Laderman of material collected from a freshwater Atantic white cedar swamp at Cumloden near Woods Hole in Massachusetts, USA in spring and summer, 2001. Image copyright: D. J. Patterson and Aimlee Ladermann, image used under license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Glaucoma
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Cumloden, Massachusetts, USA
| Description of Glaucoma: Glaucomid ciliates, long axis of opening to oral cavity at ? 45Ã angle to long axis of body; X-group present; cytoproct between rows 1 and n. |
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