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Dinoflagellate adaptation

Organism : Planktonic Protists
Species : Dinoflagellates
Description : Every day, at dawn, Ceratium ranipes transforms. It grows fingers with choroplasps Inside to increase its surface and capture more light energy with its chloroplasts a phenomenom discoverd by MD Pizay and J Dolan from Villefranche sur Mer. Photo : John Dolan et Marie-Dominique Pizay
Project : The Plankton Chronicles
Website : http://www.planktonchronicles.org
Tags : Chloroplasts Finger Dinoflagellate
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