GENOME DISCOVERY WILL HELP COMBAT DISEASE AND
LEAD TO NEW DRUGS

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Video clips :
 1. Growth of fungal filaments 1 (Aspergillus fumigatus)
  2. Growth of fungal filaments 2 (Aspergillus fumigatus)
  3. Growth of filament showing nuclear migration and nuclear division (Aspergillus nidulans)
Images :
Images below may be obtained at higher resolution by clicking on each image. All images are scanning electron micrographs of cells and spores from Aspergillus nidulans or Aspergillus fumigatus
 

This material has been provided by several laboratories engaged in Aspergillus research, it is free to be used providing the copyright (retained by the owner) is upheld and material is acknowledged.


Ascospores- sexual spores from Aspergillus nidulans, false coloured
Ascospores- sexual spores from Aspergillus nidulans Ascospores- sexual spores from Aspergillus nidulans, false coloured
Cleistothecium- container of sexual spores (called ascospores) from Aspergillus nidulans Cleistothecium - sexual spore container, false coloured from Aspergillus nidulans.
Cleistothecium (sexual spore container) surrounded Hülle cells in Aspergillus nidulans

Asexual spore production in Aspergillus fumigatus

All the Aspergillus images above are courtesy of Professor Rheinhard Fischer, Institut für Angewandte Biowissenschaften Abt. für Angewandte Mikrobiologie der Universität Karlsruh, with whom copyright remains.
chest x ray
sputum
Fungal hyphae identified in phlegm of a patient with aspergillosis,(high power microscopy view with Papanicolau stain).
Aspergillosis: Chest radiograph with ‘classical' appearance of a pulmonary infarction – a wedge-shaped lesion peripherally set against the pleura.  

UK postage stamp issue 2003 (click to enlarge)

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