The series of three vertical columns shows various aspects of mitotic anaphase in a live Barbulanympha (protist). The left column shows the birefringent spindle imaged by polarization microscopy; the...

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 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...

This polarized photomicrograph shows the rows of suckers on the foreleg of a male Dytiscus marginalis, commonly known as the great diving beetle - the largest freshwater beetle in the UK. It has a lar...

Acanthamoeba castellani is a free living amoebae found in soil and water and can be an opportunistic pathogen as well. They have been diagnosed as the causative agent associated with keratitis, an inf...

Balamuthia mandrillaris was isolated from a sample of soil from a plant in the home of a child who died of amebic encephalitis. These free living amoebae can be opportunistic pathogens, and in some ...

Adapted from the original movie of a Balamuthia mandrillaris within a culture of monkey kidney cells (CIL:20152). The comparatively thick body of the ameba has a number of pseudopodia extending from i...

An ameba, Balamuthia mandrillaris, within a culture of feeder cells is extended from its branched pseudopodia at the upper left corner of the picture while its rope-like body curves over and around a ...