Quarterdeck Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1997
In this scanning electron micrograph the spheroid cell
of the coccolithophore Michaelsarsia elegans rests on its skeleton-like
appendages radiating from an opening on the side of the cell facing away
from the camera. The appendages have three parts, but only two are shown
here. Two or more appendages attach to M. elegans' doughnut-shaped
coccoliths. Two of these are clearly visible below the cell in this photograph,
but one has lost its appendages.
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