Ward's® Live Volvox aureus Culture

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470176-360EA 15.7 CAD
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Ward's® Live Volvox aureus Culture
Specimens Live Specimens Protists - Living Material
Volvox aureus is a species of colonial green algae that forms spherical colonies of cells.

  • Extremely easy to visualize
  • Beautiful spherical, hollow colonies containing immature daughter cells
  • Volvox has green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose
  • Cytoplasmic connections are the size of flagella- thinner than closely related V.globator (also available)

Volvox aureus is a species of Chlorophyte algae that can be found in freshwater lakes and ponds. When in optimal conditions, V. aureus will reproduce asexually; during times of drought or other adversity it will switch to sexual reproduction.
Genus: Volvox Species: aureus
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