Volvox Dances
Volvox was once described as "the first multi-cellular lodge." Now it is generally thought of as a colony of algae cells that have made a brand of "long-term commitment". However you create of it, Volvox reproduces both asexually and sexually and the young always grow into the colony. The shots for this motion picture were made at 100X magnification with a Swift FM-31 Domain Microscope and Nikon Coolpix 885 Digital Camera. The representative was collected along the creek bank at Muir Seashore, California. The dark "balls" favourable the Volvox colonies are daughter cells or daughter colonies.
