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Cosmarium ?
caption
A new desmid, (Cosmarium?) that recently appeared in the plankton of Lake Kinneret. Methylene blue staining shows a halo of thin mucilaginous strands extending out of the cell.
author
aalster and tzohary
copyright
A Alster & T Zohary, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, IOLR
observation details
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image notes
Photo taken with an Olympus BX50 Microscope equipped with DIC optics and PixeLink digital camera, mag. X100, the cell stained with Methylene-blue.
