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Contractile Vacuoles of Protozoa

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Le Vacuome de la Cellule Végétale: Morphologie. Le Vacuome Animal. Contractile Vacuoles of Protozoa. Food Vacuoles

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A contractile vacuole is a vesicle containing water and lying within the cytoplasm of the cell. It increases in volume, and finally discharges its contents to the outside. In many Protozoa there is a permanent position at which contractile vacuoles continually form, grow and discharge.

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Kitching, J.A. (1956). Contractile Vacuoles of Protozoa. In: Le Vacuome de la Cellule Végétale: Morphologie. Le Vacuome Animal. Contractile Vacuoles of Protozoa. Food Vacuoles. Protoplasmatologia, vol 3 / D / 1,2,3a,3b. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-5770-1_3

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