This is one of 4 grouped time lapse movies (CIL 11958-11962) revealing the responses of a meiotic oocyte spindle to various forms of micromanipulation by a glass microneedle. The needle is inserted, ...

Dividing egg of the jellyfish (Spirocodon saltatrix showing birefringent spindles. The arrow indicates the direction of the compensator slow axis. AS the cell is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the...

Brighfield and polarized light of Spirogyra (a filamentous green algae). Spirogyra is unbranched with cellular cells connected end to end in long green filaments. Sixth Prize, 2010 Olympus BioScapes...

The time-lapse movie shows early development in the Lytechinus (sea urchin) embryo. Polarizing microscopy highlights the mitotic spindles which may show bright or dark contrast according to their orie...

The time lapse movie shows several sequences of mitosis in the liquid endosperm of the African Blood Lily Haemanthus katherinae imaged by polarizing microscopy. Birefringent microtubules are attached ...

The time lapse movie spans fertilization, ooplasmic segregation, and early divisions in the egg of the tunicate Phalusia mammilata. Contrast is provided by both polarizing microscopy and differential...

A frame from the grouped movie of a Balamuthia mandrillaris ameba within a culture of monkey kidney cells. Accompanying photographs are enlargements of the tips of pseudopodia to demonstrate their fle...

A single frame from the movie (CIL:20154) that shows a large rounded monkey kidney cell being penetrated by a pseudopodium followed by the whole Balamuthia ameba. Detection of the ameba within, rather...

A single frame from the movie (CIL:20154) that shows a large rounded monkey kidney cell being penetrated by a pseudopodium followed by the whole Balamuthia ameba. Detection of the ameba within, rather...

Naegleria fowleri is a free living amoebae that can be an opportunistic pathogen, and in some cases, has been diagnosed as the causative agent of the usually fatal amebic encephalitis. Other opportuni...