To celebrate the Node’s first birthday, we will be uploading a new desktop wallpaper (with calendar) every month between July and December 2011. Check back at the end of each month for the next month’s wallpaper.
December 2011
Dorsal view of the central nervous system of a Drosophila embryo. This image, taken by Joshua Clanton of Vanderbilt University, was one of the candidates in the third Development cover image voting round of images taken at the 2010 Woods Hole Embryology course.
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November 2011
A sea biscuit during metamorphosis from larval to adult stage. This image, taken by Bruno Vellutini of the Marine Biology Center of University of São Paulo, was the runner up in the Intersection Image Competition held earlier this year.
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October 2011
Mouse embryo showing Wnt1/Cre-YFP transgene (yellow), 2H3 antibody (red), and DAPI (blue). This image, taken by Elsa Denker of the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, was one of the candidates in the fourth Development cover image voting round of images taken at the 2010 Woods Hole Embryology course.
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September 2011
It resembles an African violet, but this is actually a staining of the four-cell stage of a slipper limpet just about to cleave to the eight-cell stage. This image, taken by Anna Franz of the University of Oxford, was one of the candidates in the second Development cover image voting round of images taken at the 2010 Woods Hole Embryology course.
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August 2011
This was the runner-up in the first Development cover image voting round of images taken at the 2010 Woods Hole Embryology course. It shows a squid embryo, with DAPI staining in blue and phalloidin in red. The image was taken by Jennifer Hohagen of Georg-August-Universitaet in Göttingen.
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July 2011
This was the winning picture in the Node’s “Intersection” image contest. It shows a co-localization of slow myosin heavy chain (magenta) with Sox6 (in blue) on a gut section of a E17.5 mouse embryo. Image by Stéphane Vincent of the IGBMC.
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