Diatom Cell (IMAGE)

Rutgers University

Diatom Cell

Caption

This is a diatom cell from the Gulf of Mexico. It is stained with a fluorescent dye to show newly formed cell walls (blue) and the red is fluorescence from chlorophyll. The white bar is a 10 micron scale bar.

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Jeffrey Krause and Sydney Acton

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