Image of the Week - 19 September 2006

Montastrea annularis Coral Polyp Cross-Section

This brightfield tiled image of a coral polyp, collected this spring in Curacao, was taken using the fluorescence microscope. It represents 117 (13 x 9) stitched and tiled images, each about 1300 x 1000 pixels, and was taken at an original magnification of 20x.

Image Courtesy: Roy Johnson and Bruce Fouke, Department of Geology, Institute of Genomic Biology, and Department of Microbiology

Contact: rwj04@uiuc.edu