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Mike - 

If you can get some termites, they have lovely flagellate endosymbionts:

http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v12/n3/box/nrmicro3182_BX1.html

We used to squish them out right onto a slide for invert zoo lab. I'm not sure if you are trying to do permanent mounts or if live samples are OK, but these were always a big hit with the students. 

Tamara

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Tamara Howard
Dept. of Cell Biology & Physiology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM


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Dear All,

We are planning to introduce some microscopy into schools. We would need a source of cells that would be:
(1) without cell walls (not from an onion)
(2) easy to obtain or maintain
(3) would stick to glass
(4) not too big and not too small (if amoebas are ~0.5 mm that would be too big, red blood cells are probably too small and don't stick to glass)
(5) be alive (cheek cells come out mostly dead, at least from my mouth....)

Maybe C elegans? Or crush some kind of worm and get something out of it? Any ideas? Thank you!

Mike