Hey folks, I found these ciliates in one of my samples, and I think they’re Paramecium sps. but not sure.
 
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 Can anyone in the community identify what these are at the species level??

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 Paramecium sps. ??
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 Ciliate colony??
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Yashas Devasurmutt | Tue, Feb 05, 2019, 12:41 AM

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