#stentor igneus

[adelicateculturecell]

"So much work went into understanding the timeline of this one narrow process in [cilia] regeneration, and there is still so much mechanical mystery underlying it. Not to mention all the other feats of regenerative prowess that stentors casually perform on a regular basis. But science is always advancing. And with all these mysteries to solve and more, stentors will likely find themselves at the center of many many other strange experiments and observations to come."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Strange Stentor Stories

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Stentor igneus 630x, Stentor coeruleus 200x, Stentor polymorphus 200x, Stentor polymorphus 200x, Stentor roeseli 200x, Stentor amethystinus 200x

[adelicateculturecell]

"Cilia may look like little bits of hair lining the organism, but they act more like a coordinated set of limbs that help draw in food and move the stentor around. Lots and lots of limbs that are moving together in a complex dance that in turn creates patterns of movement in the water surrounding the stentor. And the scientists watched as the stentors were able to rebuild this whole complex system again, they found that it takes about 5 hours just to grow those oral cilia back to an observable length, and then another two hours for the cilia to start coordinating their movments."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Strange Stentor Stories

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs

[adelicateculturecell]

"And for more than a century, scientists have been passing down techniques to cut stentors into pieces. There's the obvious surgical technique, using a needle to cut a stentor into pieces and then watch it reconstruct several new versions of itself. But you can also bathe stentors in a sugar solution, and the organism will then shed its oral apparatus (which is its version of a mouth). It's not clear why this happens, but it allows scientists to watch the stentor rebuild that one portion of its body. Scientists used this method to study how Stentor coeruleus resets the movement of its cilia after regenerations."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Strange Stentor Stories

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs

Stentor amethystinus 630x, Stentor roeseli 200x, Stentor igneus 200x, Stentor polymorphus 200x, Stentor roeseli 200x, Stentor roeseli 200x

[adelicateculturecell]

Journey to the Microcosmos: How to Identify Microbes

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Bacteria 600x & Sped up 500%, Amoeba 400x, Stentor igneus 600x, Brachionus 400x, Thecamoeba 400x, and Gastrotrich 600x