Movie of portion of a hypermastigote symbiont from the hindgut of a wood eating cockroach. The rootlets and flagella are birefringent and the beating flagella are clearly seen with the polarizing micr...

The movie shows the wave-like effect of compensated birefringence caused by rotating spirochetes attached to the surface of a hypermastigote protozoan. The image was obtained using a rectified polariz...

The time-lapse movie made in 1974 shows meiosis in spermatocytes of Chrysochraon japonicas (grasshopper) as seen with the polarizing microscope. The principal birefringent components are the spindle m...

The movie shows two sequences that begin with an unfertilized Arbacia (sea urchin) egg in which the contents have been stratified using the centrifuge polarizing microscope (CPM) developed by S. Inoue...

This is one of 4 grouped time lapse movies (CIL 11958-11962) revealing the responses of a meiotic oocyte spindle to various forms of micromanipulation by a glass microneedle. The needle is inserted, ...

Time lapse movie showing mitosis and cleavage in fertilized eggs of the jellyfish Halistaura cellularia. The use of polarizing microscopy reveals the mitotic spindles, which are seen in bright or dar...

This is one of 4 grouped time lapse movies (CIL 11958-11962) revealing the responses of a meiotic oocyte spindle to various forms of micromanipulation by a glass microneedle. The needle is inserted, ...

The movie shows the rhythmic movement of the termite flagellate Pyrsonympha, a symbiont that lives in the hindgut. The motile structure is a complex of ~2,000 aligned microtubules, the axostyle which ...

Dividing egg of the jellyfish (Spirocodon saltatrix showing birefringent spindles. The arrow indicates the direction of the compensator slow axis. AS the cell is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the...

The time-lapse movie shows early development in the Lytechinus (sea urchin) embryo. Polarizing microscopy highlights the mitotic spindles which may show bright or dark contrast according to their orie...