There are more images, and a poll to determine which one will grace the cover of Development. Go vote!
Friday Cephalopod: Squid star! And a poll!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
There are more images, and a poll to determine which one will grace the cover of Development. Go vote!
Pyschedelic! They’re all so trippy!
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Thank you for voting!
1. Pilidium larvae of Cerebratulus lacteus 32.65% (223 votes)
2. Crepidula fornicata embryo 31.77% (217 votes)
3. Five Loligo pealei squid 24.01% (164 votes)
4. Single Loligo pealei squid 11.57% (79 votes)
Total Votes: 683
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I voted for one but really, quite happy with all and any of ’em.
Huge detailed version and key:
I kind of like the other squid embryo* better, though: check out that nervous system!
*(Confocal image of squid, Loligo pealei, embryo stained for for F-actin (red; phalloidin), Acetylated tubulin (green), and DAPI (blue; nuclei))
“Earth!”
“Fire!”
“Wind!”
“Water!”
“Heart!”
“By your powers combined, I am Captain Pharyngula!”
or, yeah, just clicking on the OP pic is another way to see it giant and detailed. Just noticed that.
Wrong. Captain Pharyngula has no heart.
When you look at the enlarged version, a lot of the red spots (= tubulin) appear to have little tendrils. Are these the spindles of dividing cells (seem to large relative to the blue-stained cell nuclei), or are these maybe developing chromatophores?
too large, obv
No fair! They’re splitting the squid vote.
A squidzard, a true star.
This image reminds me that I’ve yet to see a post about Prometheus. Did I miss an episode?
Because between the [spoiler] creationism with Greys on steroids and the baby squid raping facehugger (who somehow looks like today’s image), this movie is perfect fodder for this blog [/spoiler]
Those gummy bears look delicious!!!
I, on the other tentacle, have three, so these things even out.
A must vote for the 5 pointed squidling star. The 5-pointed star is the sign of evil and I bet those squidlings are communicating their final evil intentions before they separate and conquer the seas.
Awesome!
The “5-pointed squidling star” is gorgeous. But it’s apparently the same image repeated 4 more times, with different filters to emphasize different active sites. That smacks of Photoshop-like stuff. Surely the same 5 images arranged next to each other would be a more effective pedagogical/research tool.
I think I’d rather see one image with the different colors included, to really get a sense for what’s going on.
“Earth!”
“Fire!”
“Wind!”
“Water!”
“BRAAAAIIIIINS!”
“By your powers combined, I am Captain Pharyngula!”
Better?
I have no clue what I’m looking at, but damn, is it PRETTY!