scholarly journals Using confocal laser scanning microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and phase contrast light microscopy to examine marine biofilms

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 199-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
TA Norton ◽  
RC Thompson ◽  
J Pope ◽  
CJ Veltkamp ◽  
B Banks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Phase Contrast ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser ◽  
Marine Biofilms ◽  
Scanning Electron

A study of hydrogenated carbon fibers by scanning electron microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 447-453
Author(s):  
Antonio Madroñero De La Cal ◽  
Juan Aguado-Serrano ◽  
Maria Luisa Rojas-Cervantes ◽  
Elena V. Rosa Adame ◽  
Belen Sarmiento Marron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Carbon Fibers ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser Scanning ◽  
Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Confocal Laser ◽  
Scanning Electron

Organization of pharyngeal hard parts and musculature in Gnathostomula armata (Gnathostomulida: Gnathostomulidae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 1463-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin V Sørensen ◽  
Seth Tyler ◽  
Matthew D Hooge ◽  
Peter Funch
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Laser Scanning Microscopy ◽  
Basal Plate ◽  
Confocal Laser ◽  
Pharyngeal Bulb ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Scanning Electron

The pharynx of Gnathostomula armata, like that of other members of the phylum Gnathostomulida, consists of a set of jaws, a basal plate, and a muscular bulb that encloses these cuticularized hard parts. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) provides additional information about the hard parts and shows that the dentition of the jaws is arranged in three rows: 7–10 teeth in a dorsal row, 16–20 teeth in a medial row, and 20 teeth in a ventral row, a pattern different from that reported from light microscopy (LM). SEM also shows that the dentition of the basal plate is more like that of other Gnathostomula species than was previously discerned. Confocal laser scanning microscopy shows the musculature of the pharyngeal bulb to comprise diductors that open and tilt the jaws, looplike abductors that retract them as they snap shut by recoil, and a pair of inclinators and pair of levators that also participate in tilting the jaws back and forth. A constrictor running ventral to and behind the jaws may work to protrude them. Two arc-shaped muscles attached to the basal plate pull it forward and tilt it down to scrape food from the substratum so that it can be grabbed by the jaws. Paired retractor muscles pull the basal plate back into the mouth.

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