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Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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This is a microscopic image of the nematode Radopholus similis. Inside the roundworm the lipid droplets that store the toxin, phenylphenalenone anigorufone (yellow), are clearly visible.

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Suganthagunthalam Dhakshinamoorthy, University of Leuven

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