23. Colony Formation in Pediastrum boryanum
Channel: UMass Amherst Libraries
Date: 2017-09-25

EXPERTS
Biologist -  W. F. Millington, Marquette University

NSF Grant
DB514

COPYRIGHT
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OTHER CREDITS
Producer/Director – Joseph V.  Durden
Director/Editor – Elvin Carini
Electron Microscopy – S. R. Gawlik
Sound – Charles L. White, Jr.
Graphics – George Witham
Project Coordinator – Marilyn P. Farnell
Production Manager – David R. Nelson
Produced by the Developmental Biology Film Program of the Educational Development Center
Project Director – Eugene Bell
Executive Producer – Jack Churchill
Narrated by Joseph V. Durden

DESCRIPTION
Pediastrum boryanum, a fresh water green alga that forms colonies of from 2 to 64 cells that adhere edge to edge. The cells develop from zoospores from a single cell in a parent colony.