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Creation Date
9-26-2017
Keywords
Fruit Fly; Cofocal laser-scanning microscope; Oocyte; Drosophila
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Life Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Document Type
Image
File Format
jpeg
File Size
674 Kb
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2017 Image of Research Contest - Graduate and Undergraduate division.
This image shows a portion of a fruit fly ovary that has been treated with fluorescent probes, which were then imaged using UNLV’s confocal laser-scanning microscope. The dark region in the top left corner is a single-celled oocyte that will soon be fertilized to give rise to a new fly. Nuclei are shown in scarlet (where DNA is stored). An ominous skull-shaped nucleus is visible within the oocyte. The cytoskeleton that acts as a cell’s muscles are shown in grey. Adhesive junctions that hold cells together are shown in blue. This data reveals how cells change shape as they move and grow within a developing tissue.
Time Period
2010-2019; 21st century
Keywords
Fruit Fly; Cofocal laser-scanning microscope; Oocyte; Drosophila