Solitary Phaeosystis (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Solitary Phaeosystis

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Phaeocystis suppresses colony formation in the presence of chemical signals from copepods and remains as small, solitary cells like these that are only a few micrometers in diameter.

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Image courtesy of Robert Andersen

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