Fluorescent Images of Hydrocarbon and Polysaccharide Repartition on Bb Algae Colonies (IMAGE)

Kumamoto University

Fluorescent Images of Hydrocarbon and Polysaccharide Repartition on Bb Algae Colonies

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a) This is a colony full of cells (red) with polysaccharides (yellow) and hydrocarbons (green) leaving the colony (x20); b) parts of colony tightly packed together (x60); c) colony full of cells (red) with dichotomial ramification of polysaccharides (yellow) and hydrocarbons leaving the colony (green) (x100); d) Single cell (x100 and numerically magnified). (Adapted from Guionet, A., Hosseini, B., Teissie, J., Akiyama, H., & Hosseini, H. (2017). A new mechanism for efficient hydrocarbon electro-extraction from Botryococcus braunii. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 10(1), 39. DOI: 10.1186/s13068-017-0724-1)

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Professor Hamid Hosseini

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