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Title
CIL:772, Patiria miniata, sperm
Creator
Horowitz-Scherer, Rachel
Contributor
Horowitz-Scherer, Rachel
Date Created and/or Issued
2021
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection
Cell Image Library
Rights Information
Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: The person(s) who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
Description
Phosphorus has a characteristic electron energy loss with an edge at 160 eV. The Zeiss 902 electron microscope permits images to be recorded at different energy losses which can be digitized and processed to yield a net phosphorus image. For nuclear chromatin, phosphorus is primarily located in DNA, allowing its distribution in chromatin fibers to be mapped. Electron energy loss (EELS) imaging is also known as electron spectroscopic imaging (ESI) and electron energy filtering TEM (EFTEM). Starfish sperm chromatin, which has clearly defined chromatin fibers was fixed, embedded in Lowicryl at low temperature, thin sections prepared and imaged unstained. The 3 grouped images were recorded with a Zeiss 902 energy filtered TEM at 80KV using 5eV windows centered on energy loss values of 160, 120, and 104eV (this image).
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Horowitz-Scherer, Rachel (2021). CIL:772, Patiria miniata, sperm. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0D50M7G
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1781615q
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
DNA packaging
Fertilization
Sperm
Nuclear chromatin
Patiria miniata
Cell Image Library Group ID: 7769

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