Chain Diatom

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One of the Biddulphia group of chain diatoms. Recently we have photographed these and similar species in 3-D. Only then is it possible to appreciate how nuclear masses are suspended on cytoplasmic strands in mid cell, and that many species have cells that are triangular in cross section.

 

 
 
 
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