Dinoflagellates and <i>Choanoeca flexa</i> (VIDEO)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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In this video, life abounds in freshly collected water from a pool fed by ocean spray in Curaçao. Smaller, oval-shaped dinoflagellates zip about as colonies of C. flexa choanoflagellates curl into balls, then revert into cups.

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T. Brunet, B. T. Larson, T. A. Linden et al./Science 2019

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