When I captured it, I assumed an air bubble grew inside its test, popped and killed it. However, I've since learned that this was the detachment of a gas vacuole. Arcellae use this type of vacuole to regulate their buoyancy, to escape or to turn its theca.
At 0:28 was that amoeba fart ???
When I captured it, I assumed an air bubble grew inside its test, popped and killed it. However, I've since learned that this was the detachment of a gas vacuole. Arcellae use this type of vacuole to regulate their buoyancy, to escape or to turn its theca.