Protist Images: Phagocytosis

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Phagocytosis
Endocytosis & Exocytosis

Mastigophora

Peranema trichophorum

Chlorogonium

Goniomonas truncata

Cyathomonas truncata

Oscillatoria

Sarcodia: Heliozoea

Actinosphaerium

Stentor

Dimorpha mutans

Chromulina

Sarcodia: Rhizopoda

Various targets of phagocytosis in Amoeba proteus & Acanthamoeba

Endocytosis in Acanthamoeba

Mayorella eating Saccamoeba

Thecamoeba eating filamentous algae

Ciliate > Heliozoa > Amoeba

Vannella simplex

Spirogyra

Vampyrella lateritia eats Spirogyra

Vampyrella sp. eats Cosmarium

Nuclearia sp. eats Mougeotia sp.

Cochliopodium actinophorum

excretion

Animations

A. proteus ingesting immovable ciliates (Paramecium)

A. proteus ingesting immovable ciliates (Tetrahymena)

Formation of food cup surrounding an oil drop

Food-cup formation to an oil drop (linoic acid)

Food-cup formation to an oil drop (linolenic acid)

Redirection of the locomotive movement of Amoeba proteus by a glass bead

Ciliophora
Chilodonella cucullulus eating Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Nassula eating Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Nassula eating Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Nassula eating Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Pseudomicrothorax eating Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Frontonia leucas ingesting Oscillatoria (Cyanobacterium)
Food-vacuole formation in Paramecium caudatum
Food-vacuole formation in Paramecium caudatum
Food-vacuole formation in Epistylis hentscheli
Food-vacuole formation in Epistylis hentscheli
Food-vacuole formation in Campanella sp.
Coleps eating Algae
Coleps eating Chlorogonium elongatum
Dileptus eats Halteria
Homalozoon eats Paramecium
Litonotus cygnus eats a prey
Movies:
Woodruffia sp. ingesting Phormidium autumnalae filament, by A. Pajdak-Stós (Poland)
Pseudomicrothorax dubius ingesting Nostoc muscorum, by A. Pajdak-Stós (Poland)

Ingestion of cytoplasm:
Tokophrya lemnarum eats Tetrahymena thermophila

Dog-Eat-Dog:
Mayorella eats its daughter cells
Histriculus eats its daughter cells when starved

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