Male and female Pleodorina starrii under a light microscope (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Male and female Pleodorina starrii under a light microscope

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Left: Sexually induced male colony of algae. Center: Pleodorina starrii female colony with male sperm packet (arrowhead). Right: Pleodorina starrii female colony with dissociated male gametes (arrowheads). Scale bar = 50 micrometers.

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Image by Kohei Takahashi, first published in Evolution DOI: 10.1111/evo.14306

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