Difference between revisions of "Complex multilocular tests"

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[[Image:Alveolina.melo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|<font size="2">'''Formation of a new chamber''' in trochospiral ''Discorbis bertheloti'' . A – fan-shaped rhizopodia spreading from the aperture located on the opposite (umbilical) side; B – retraction of rhizopodia; C – secretion of a new chamber. Scale-bar = 0.5 mm (from [[REFERENCES|Tyszka et al., 2005]] - fig. 3, after Grell, 1978, and Le Calvez, 1938, modified)</font>]]
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[[Image:Alveolina.melo.jpg|thumb|left|150px|<font size="2"> Complex multilocular test ''Alveolina melo'' [http://microscope.mbl.edu/scripts/microscope.php?func=imgDetail&imageID=9333]</font>]]
  
  
 
Complex multilocular tests are composed of chambers subdivided by partitions into chamberlets. Such chambers have multiple apertures, which are responsible for the formation of chamberlets during chamber additions.
 
Complex multilocular tests are composed of chambers subdivided by partitions into chamberlets. Such chambers have multiple apertures, which are responsible for the formation of chamberlets during chamber additions.

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