American Elm seed (Ulmus americana), captured using stereomicroscopy and polarized light. These seeds are also called samaras and have characteristic "wings" on their periphery. Honorable Mention, 2...

Movie of portion of a hypermastigote symbiont from the hindgut of a wood eating cockroach. The rootlets and flagella are birefringent and the beating flagella are clearly seen with the polarizing micr...

The movie shows the wave-like effect of compensated birefringence caused by rotating spirochetes attached to the surface of a hypermastigote protozoan. The image was obtained using a rectified polariz...

Polarized light micrograph of Triceratops dinosaur parietal (skull) bone. Honorable Mention, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Fresh water plant Elodea canadensis imaged using polarized light. 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

Polarized light micrograph of a Diatom arachnoidiscus. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.

The time-lapse movie made in 1974 shows meiosis in spermatocytes of Chrysochraon japonicas (grasshopper) as seen with the polarizing microscope. The principal birefringent components are the spindle m...

Time lapse movie showing mitosis and cleavage in fertilized eggs of the jellyfish Halistaura cellularia. The use of polarizing microscopy reveals the mitotic spindles, which are seen in bright or dar...

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, ...

The movie shows the rhythmic movement of the termite flagellate Pyrsonympha, a symbiont that lives in the hindgut. The motile structure is a complex of ~2,000 aligned microtubules, the axostyle which ...