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Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.

Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.
Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.
Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.
Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.
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Edgcomb, Virginia
Organism collection from deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake.
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12/05/2011
DiscoveryBasinKinetoplastids.jpg
Date is approximate.
R/V Atlantis cruise AT-18 Leg XIV
Dive and Discover, Exp. 14
Mediterranean Deep Brines
November 28 - December 9, 2011
Image of The Day caption:
WHOI microbial ecologist Virginia Edgcomb collected the organisms shown here in 2009 from the top of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic lake on the Mediterranean seafloor. The bright blue color comes from DAPI, a fluorescent probe that indicates the presence of DNA. The large, circular blob and smaller one near it belong to a kinetoplastid, a single-celled protist that has a large nucleus where most of its DNA resides, as well as another small DNA-containing structure. The clump of tiny blobs to the left of the kinetoplastid is a group of bacteria. Edgcomb led a Dive & Discover expedition to the area in fall, 2011.
Photo by Virginia Edgcomb
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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