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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0001.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0001.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Lion Tamers from the Depths below? Get your whip ready.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0002.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0002.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[OK, well they are not really from oceans below or under the sea, in reality these little critters were found in a wastewater Aeration basin.]]></slide>
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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0006.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0006.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is another flagellate, similar to a Peranema and Euglena, but smaller.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0007.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0007.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[We do have videos of this, but they are too large to load on a website.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0008.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0008.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These photomicrographs were taken from a wastewater sample. Most of the objectives used were 100x and 400x with a few at 1000x.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0009.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0009.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena 1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[A Peranema is a colorless euglenoid with two flagella, although only one is usually visible through the microscope.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0010.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0010.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The sample came from a wastewater treatment plant that was running an older sludge. All of a sudden thousands of flagellates showed up. 
This is an indication of a recent high BOD swing.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0011.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0011.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[We recommended they decrease wasting or increase bioaugmentation which they do occasionally when they cannot return enough in the RAS in order to increase the number of bacteria in the system an get the F/M ratio back in their desired range.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0012.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0012.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Sometimes the flagellum can be longer than the body of the organism. ]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0013.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0013.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The Peranema has a very distinct flagella that it uses in a whip like motion for movement.]]></slide>
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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0015.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0015.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[1000x Bright field]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0016.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0016.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Peranema are a close relative of the Euglena.]]></slide>
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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0018.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0018.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Mastigophora-the Flagellates- are protozoans propelled by one or more flagella. ]]></slide>
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Peranema
Euglenophyceae]]></slide>
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        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0027.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0027.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Euglena" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They can ingest large quantities of bacteria and algae and even some small organisms by expanding the cytostome -- the cavity which lies at the base of the flagellum.]]></slide>
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Euglenophyceae: 
Heteronematales Euglenida:
Heteronematina Peranema]]></slide>
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