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Stockholm University

Microscopy

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Epi-fluorescent images of open ocean symbiotic diatoms with their N2 fixing cyanobacterial symbionts. The symbionts auto fluoresce yellow whereas the diatom chloroplasts fluoresce red. A continuum of integration exists where symbionts reside inside (endobiont, left), or in transition (partially endobionts, middle), or attached (epibionts, right). 

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Rachel A Foster

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