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Electron micrographs of infected mosquito midguts
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Images:
Images were taken by John Findlay, Electron Microscopy, Daniel Rutherford Building, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Images of malaria infected mosquito midguts
These images are available free but please credit all images to The Read Group, Penn State University. Click thumbnail for full sized image.
Sporozoites erupting from oocyst.
Oocyst ready to rupture.
Sporozoites being released.
Melanised oocyst.
Sporozoites being released.
Oocyst on the outer midgut wall.
Oocsyt infected midgut.
Oocsyt infected midgut.
Mature oocsyt.
Oocsyts.
More oocsyts.
Packaging of an oocyst.
Sporozoites being released.
Packaging of an oocyst.
Image credits: Krijn Paaijmans, Penn State University.
Fungus-killed mosquitoes
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For permission to use any of these images and also obtain high resolution copies please contact Louise Crane.
Please credit all photos to Hugh Sturrock. To see Hugh’s award winning photograph of a mosquito in flight (Wellcome Trust Biomedial Image Award 2006) click here.
Fungus-killed mosquito held in tweezers (1.2MB.)
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi, dead for 48 hours with sporulating fungus = Beauveria bassiana.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 12 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana , sporulating.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.1MB.)
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus
Top: freshly fed Anopheles, Middle: mosquito killed by fungus 24 hours earlier, Bottom: mosquito killed by fungus 48 hours.
Technical: Mosquitoes = Anopheles stephensi; fungus = Beauveria bassiana, sporulating.
Killing blood-fed moquitoes with a fungus (2.2MB.)