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MICROBE MOVIE STARS |
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The Rotifer Brachionus |
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MICROBE MOVIE STARS |
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The Rotifer Brachionus |
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one of the smallest multicellular organisms. They range
from 0.04 to 2 millimetre in size. You can find them in
almost every kind of fresh water. They are great fun to
watch through a microscope. Because they are so
transparent all internal organs can be seen. In the movie
of Brachionus we can see on the right the two
crowns of hairlike cilia it uses to sweep in food
particles. In the centre of the body the 'mastax', a
chewing and grinding device processes the food towards
the stomach. The food can be seen as brown substance. A better view of the crown of cilia can be seen in the movie of Limnias |
More about Rotifers can be found in 'The Smallest Page on the Web'
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© Wim van Egmond 1999 |
