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Titlefilaments
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Rating2.5
VettedTrusted
Description
Oscillatoria (oss-sill-at-oar-ee-a) (tentative identification) upper filament with gas vacuoles - protein inclusions which are not easily distinguished from membrane bound compartments which distinguish eukaryotes. To get to a correct identification. care needs to be taken to check if ALL cells have the inclusions. Gas vesicles tend not to be present in all cells. Differential interference contrast.
Original URLhttp://pinkava.asu.edu/starcentral/msr/rawdata/viewable/bg71_tkw.jpg
authorMichele Bahr and David Patterson
providermicro*scope
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith