haiku #2

amoeba wisdom:

embrace any obstacle then you can eat it

An image from the following research: “The vampyrellid amoeba Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents” coauthored by Andreas Suthaus, Sebastian Hess; First published: 28 August 2024 -Feeding process of Strigomyxa ruptor; DIC (a–d), with orange filter and monochromatic image capture (c, d). (a) Trophozoite engulfing a Closterium cell. (b) Reddish band of granular cytoplasm (RB) prior to cell wall cleavage in two focal planes. Right panels show the same structure at higher magnification. © Time series of cell wall cleavage and protoplast extraction. Note the reddish band (RB), cytoplasmic brace (CB), and the feeding pseudopodium (FP). Time stamps are shown in mm:ss. (d) Time series showing the burst of the large waste vacuole (WV) and release of remnant algal cell walls. Note that the cell contents of the algae remain in small (secondary) food vacuoles (FV). Scale bars: 50 μm.