Posts Tagged ‘Wright stain’

  In educational and research settings, Tetrahymena is an excellent model organism for engaging students to investigate function, morphology, structure, phagocytosis, and ciliary motion. Here, we present applications of Wright stain and Sytox green as useful low-cost tools for phenotypic analysis. We used heatfixed Tetrahymena followed by Wright-stain-labeled organelles at different stages of its life cycle.…