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Kwang W. Jeon and M.S. Jeon; Generation of Mechanical Forces in Phagocytosing Amoebae: Light and Electron Microscopic Study. J.Protozool. 30(3):536-538, 1983

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Cells of Amoeba proteus and Chaos carolinensis that were in the process of phagocytosing large prey organisms were studied to find a structural basis for the generation of mechanical forces exerted by newly forming food cups. It was found that the food-cup walls facing prey organisms have a more prominent network of thin filaments inside the plasmalemma and that the glycocalyx covering the area is more condenced than usual.