Choanoflagellates - Scanning Electron Microscope image
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Choanoflagellates - Scanning Electron Microscope image
This is a Scanning Electron Microscope image of a group of choanoflagellates. It is interesting to see how they attach to the surface. View them with respect as they are among all protists our closest relatives
Fixed in glutaraldehyde for 45 minutes, then OsO4 for 45 minutes. The rest of the procedure is described here: http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=19666
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Ecki
Re: Choanoflagellates - Scanning Electron Microscope image
I can see the resemblance. They're interesting looking things. What's the scale of this photo?Ecki wrote:View them with respect as they are among all protists our closest relatives
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Glutaraldehyde
What is the dilution you are using for glutaraldehyde? My experience has been that it shrinks or puckers most protists and is only effective for copepods, daphnia and rotifers without deforming the subject.
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Re: Choanoflagellates - Scanning Electron Microscope image
Nice! What's the surface they are attached to?
Is that SEM located at FU, HU, TU, some other institution, or do we have reason to turn green with envy as it's your personal toy?
--Betty
Is that SEM located at FU, HU, TU, some other institution, or do we have reason to turn green with envy as it's your personal toy?
Likewise, we shouldn't forget the fact that we share 50% of our DNA sequences with the banana.Ecki wrote:View them with respect as they are among all protists our closest relatives
--Betty
Atticus Finch: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Lee, N. H. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott, New York.
- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Lee, N. H. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott, New York.
Thank you all for your kind comments.
Regards,
Ecki
You need to use the lowest glutaraldehyde concentration possible. I normally work with 2% - 4%. In this case the fixation solution was 2,5% glutaraldehyde in cacodylate buffer (ph 7.2). The osmium tetroxide was 2% in aqua dest and was intended to harden the membranes.Olympusman wrote:What is the dilution you are using for glutaraldehyde?
This is a crop of the original 4000x magnification image. The crop spans 45 µm from left to right.Curt wrote:What's the scale of this photo?
The surface is a cover slip. This image was made with the SEM at the Freie Universität Berlin across the street from the botanical garden. You better prepare your family for the green colored Betty - I plan to get my own one in September.Betty wrote:Nice! What's the surface they are attached to? Is that SEM located at FU, HU, TU, some other institution, or do we have reason to turn green with envy as it's your personal toy?
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Ecki
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Glutaraldehyde
I wikid cacodylate and its pretty serious stuff. I imagine you are using a prepared buffered buffered solution of glutaraldehyde.
Cacodylate was used in the herbicide Agent Blue in Vietnam. Even exposed to the odor can turn your tongue black.
I have a quart of commercial glutaraldehyde used for sterilizing instruments. I may try buffering with Sodium bicarbonate, which was suggested to me by a marine biologist in California some time ago.
Cacodylate was used in the herbicide Agent Blue in Vietnam. Even exposed to the odor can turn your tongue black.
I have a quart of commercial glutaraldehyde used for sterilizing instruments. I may try buffering with Sodium bicarbonate, which was suggested to me by a marine biologist in California some time ago.
Michael Reese Much FRMS EMS Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
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