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Image of the Week - 19 April 2005

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Honey Bee Antennal Lobe

Maximum intensity projection through a series of images depicting the honey bee antennal lobe. The honey bee antennal lobe is the first olfactory neuropil, a structure analogous to the olfactory bulb in vertebrates. The data was collected on a Leica SP-2 laser scanning confocal microscope using 10x optical magnification.

Image Courtesy: Axel Brockman, Ph. D. , Department of Entomology, UIUC

Contact: abrockma@uiuc.edu

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