Movie of meiosis I in primary spermatocytes of the crane-fly Nephrotoma suturalis that have been experimentally flattened. Time-lapse polarization microscopy using a Nikon Microphot SA, equipped for liquid crystal polarized light microscopy (LC-PolScope, CRi, Woburn Massachusetts) 60x/1.4 PlanApo oil immersion objective, 1.4 NA oil imm. condenser, with 2.0x zoom lens. Images captured every 30/60/90 sec for 2 hr 31 min using a QImaging Retigo EXi CCD camera. Raw images were processed using a 5-frame algorithm (Shribak and Oldenbourg, 2003). A movie of the time series is included in this grouped set.
Spatial Axis | Image Size | Pixel Size |
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X | 678px | 87nm |
Y | 518px | 87nm |