Images related to the MBARI News Release
Newly-discovered group of algae live in both fresh water and oceans—
may have world-wide distribution.
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MBARI researchers Adam Monier and Martin Suro deploying a water sampler in the North Pacific. Some samples from these waters were found to contain algae in the newly discovered group of rappemonads.
Image: Alexandra Worden © 2010 MBARI
Senior Research Technician Sebastian Sudek checks algae cultures in an incubator.
Image: Jane J. Lee © 2011 MBARI
Senior Research Technician Sebastian Sudek in the Worden lab at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Image: Jane J. Lee © 2011 MBARI
Senior Research Technician Sebastian Sudek working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Image: Jane J. Lee © 2011 MBARI
A collection of rappemonad cells photographed by a high-powered microscope. Each cell contains at least two chloroplasts (green dots) and a nucleus (blue dots).
Images from Kim, Harrison, Sudek et al. PNAS 2010