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The scale - which Carol provided via her stage micrometer - is at 10 micron intervals. The spores were max 21 length in water but slightly larger in the neat food dye. As Carol points out - spores tend to be measured in aqueous ammonia - which is nasty stuff - so meaurements of spores will vary somewhat depending what you use. Top left - water. Top right, a discharged spore which ought to be the ones you measure - but the frosted specimens produced very few. Top centre the barely swollen-tipped simple paraphyses. Bottom left, asus and spores in Melzer's - the tip stains blue (not so with Tarzetta). Bottom middle, the ascus "lid". Bottom right, ascus and spores in red food colouring.
Confocal microscopy! These are thymocytes I induced to go into apoptosis (programmed cell death) by irradiation.
Blue = a nuclear dye
Red = annexinV, a marker of early apoptotic cells
Green = our transgenic autoantibody, which we are trying to characterize
Taken with Bio-Rad LaserSharp2000.
2003 electron micrographs of an indian shell bead, taken while I was at Humboldt State University.
(Sadly, I don't have any further notes on the bead or it's origins handy...)
Penis Envy spores swab microscopy kit is useful to collect the swabs. The kit contain all the items that are helpful in lab testing. Have a detailed knowledge on these spores and kit from the blog below.
An orange Pennate Diatom, magnified 200x. Collected from a patch of orange mud at the Weep Site, near Drawbridge, in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Reserve. This sample was collected in early winter. In August, this diatom was the major species of the bottom mat of the Weep stream. Since then it has been displaced to one small patch by the needle-like Diatom Cylindorthecia.