Walker, Spike (2021). CIL:39034, phytoplankton, diatom. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0RR1X46

This Nomarski interference microscopy shows a marine centric diatom (unicellular alga). Diatoms are photosynthesising algae that live in most aquatic environments, both fresh and salt water. They are non-motile and are restricted to shallow waters as they require sunlight for photosynthesis. A centric diatom is one that displays radial symmetry. It is likely that due to the lack of symmetry in this example that this is probably a 4-cornered mutant of normally triangular centric diatom. More diatom images are available as CIL:39032, 39033, and 39035.

• 2021

• Walker, Spike

B0007752 Diatom: Aulacodiscus formosus. Wellcome Images available under the following creative commons usage http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Relation to intact cell: whole mounted tissue
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: differential interference contrast microscopy
Parameter imaged: optical path length gradient
Source of contrast: boundaries between regions with different refractive index
Visualization methods: visualization of contiguous regions

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 17352

• Phytoplankton

• Diatom
• Frustule

• Unicellular algae organization

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 39034

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0RR1X46

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL39034

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• Wellcome Images: http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

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2022-08-12