Super-resolution image of a diatom with polysaccharides (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Super-resolution image of a diatom with polysaccharides

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This Airyscan super-resolution image shows that fucose-containing sulphated polysaccharide, or FCSP, (in green) occurred around the cells of the chain-forming diatom Chaetoceros socialis and their spines. Sample collected during the 2016 spring diatom bloom period in Helgoland.

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/S. Vidal-Melgosa

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