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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="400x rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These photomicrographs were taken from a wastewater sample. Most of the objectives used were 100x and 400x or 1000x.]]></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="1000x rotifer " width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[OK, well they are not really from oceans below or under the sea- in reality this little critter and his whole family was found in a wastewater lagoon.

Some of the other photos were taken from numerous wastewater aeration systems.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0003.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0003.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="1000x rotifer cysts " width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[This is a cyst or rotifer egg. 
Notice the jaw is partially visible.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0004.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0004.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They can twist and turn their bodies in all directions, squeeze through any situation and keep on going! It was amazing to watch.

Here the rotifer has created a shell to pull back into during times of stress.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0005.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0005.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Eyespots" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Eyespots

Any comments, identification or suggestions, feel free to contact us ...]]></slide>
        <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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Come take a closer look at the amazing world under the microscope!]]></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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Above is one of the Rotifers close up- looks like a sea serpent when the cilia are not extended! ]]></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="Rotifer 1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals of the phylum Rotifera.]]></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="Rotifer 1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is the lower portion of the rotifer with internal organs.]]></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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Ok, well they appear to have some type of jaws that move.

At low power, it is hard to see the fine details of the organism.]]></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="Rotifer 1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Internal organs are easy to see at 400x or 1000x.]]></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="Rotifer 1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is the jaw. Watch when it is eating how it moves back and forth.]]></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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They are very active predators and scavengers.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0014.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0014.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[They twist and turn in all different directions.

Rotifers are the smallest multicellular animals.]]></slide>
        <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="Rotifer1000x" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Nearly all rotifers have chitinous jaws called trophi that grind and shred food.]]></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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[No this is not a bug from a science fiction movie!]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0017.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0017.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[There are internal organ like structures 1000x and on some the eyes look red.]]></slide>
        <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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Rotifers get their name from the corona, which is composed of several ciliated tufts around the mouth that when in motion resembles wheels.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0019.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0019.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The rotifer can undergo extreme contractions and distortions as it moves.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0020.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0020.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The foot ends in a "toe" containing a cement gland with which the rotifer may attach itself to objects in the water.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0021.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0021.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here you can easily see the eyespots and mouth.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0022.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0022.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[These "wheels" create a current that sweeps food into the mouth, where it is chewed up by a characteristic pharynx (mastax) containing tiny jaws.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0023.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0023.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Phylum Rotifera includes over 2500 species, 2300 of which are fresh water only.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0024.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0024.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The foot ends in a "toe" containing a cement gland with which the rotifer may attach itself to objects in the water.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0025.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0025.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The foot with spurs (2) and toes(4) ]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0026.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0026.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright field 400x very large when stretched out]]></slide>
        <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="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Rotifera - derived from Latin and meaning "wheel-bearer"; they have also been called wheel animalcules.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0028.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0028.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is the foot and lower body stretched out and contorted.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0029.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0029.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The mastax is a muscular pharynx containing a complex set of hard jaws or trophi and is found in all rotifers.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0030.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0030.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright field 1000x]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0031.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0031.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright field 1000x feet and lower portion of the body.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0032.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0032.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Trophus is what is used for identification purposes on these organisms this one has hair like structures-Collotheca]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0033.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0033.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Rotifera there are 3 Classes
Seisonoidea 
Bdelloidea 
Monogononta]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0034.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0034.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Bright Field]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0035.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0035.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The foot ends in a "toe" containing a cement gland with which the rotifer may attach itself to objects in the water.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0036.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0036.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Phase contrast]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0037.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0037.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[The corona is a crown of cilia.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0038.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0038.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here is almost looks like a double ring of cilia, some lower hair on the cingulum.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0039.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0039.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Rotifera - derived from Latin and meaning "wheel-bearer"; they have also been called wheel animalcules.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0040.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0040.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Brachionus is a very common genus.]]></slide>
        <slide jpegURL="thumbs/t_0041.jpg" d_URL="slides/p_0041.jpg" transition="0" panzoom="1" URLTarget="0" phototime="2" url="http://www.environmentalleverage.com" title="Rotifer" width="425" height="315"><![CDATA[Here you can see the attached egg sac]]></slide>
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