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filaments

Image of Anabaena Bory de Saint-Vincent ex Bornet & Flahault 1886

Description:

Several filaments of a blue green alga that does not form heterocysts. This image taken after most of the water had dried out and illustrates how microbes may survive in very very thin films of water (in this case only a few microns thick). Differential intereference contrast optics.

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David J Patterson
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