Researchers capture dinoflagellate on video shooting harpoons at prey
Monday, April 3, 2017 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has filmed for the first time a type of single-cell organism, a dinoflagellate, shooting its harpoon-like organelle at prey as a means of capture. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the team describes how they managed to capture the tiny creatures in action and what they learned by watching them engage with prey.