Help! We're struggling to choose between these two images of #Mesodinium #karmachamaeleon and its cryptophyte prey, one more "documentary" and one more "action shot," as cover image submissions (to a society journal). If you were an editor, which one would more likely catch your eye? #protistsonsky
The Mesodinium #karmachamaeleon are unhappy in darkness. The tuxedo cat is unhappy in a formalwear photoshoot. Same-same. Guest fig by Jonas.#figaday 4.175/n #year4 #MurphysLaw
These guys just keep getting weirder 🤯. Mesodinium #karmachamaeleon grown with extra nitrogen making crazy plastid extensions (yellow) into the other hemisphere of its cell. (Cilia in red; nuclei in green.) Expanded & imaged by Jonas Larson & Julian Jacobs. #figaday 4.156/n #year4
Just completely insanely beautiful and weird plastid structures in these guys after 3 weeks of starvation. #karmachamaeleon #figaday 4.108/n #year4
When the antibody markers have faded, granting the unexpected boon of seeing absurd wrap-around plastids?! (Purple, & top grayscale row = chlorophyll autofluorescence) Data graciously collected by Felix Mikus in my absence 🙏. #figaday 3.036/n #year3 #karmachamaeleon
