overviews and various details in
full view of two unopened ostracod, their surface as well as some protruding
appendages
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| SEM | TEM |
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bugs - main pond # 1 sinter mats and spicules pt # 3 sinters - laser work |
ostracods J3- green material J3- black material J3 - brown biofilm |
white streamers grey consortium |
white streamers |
slides - point # 2 slides - point # 3 |
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open ostracod - inner side of a carapace; note bacterial colonies
in last picture
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open ostracod - overview
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open ostracod - antennae and thorasic legs 
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various internal compounds - antenule, legs, etc
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maxilla 
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and possibly 'furca'? 
first line of pictures: presumably coprolites (?)
(1+2), filamentous bacteria linking the larger structures (3+4) and pollen
grains (5+6)
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framboids from the black sediment (1) various bacterial
structures (2-6)
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TROLLOSEN: sample 1B- white
streamers
bacterial filaments covered with elemental sulphur
(3 detail) and clay particles (3 and 4)
note that the PCR of an equivalent sample indicated
the presence of both SOB and SRB; however, microscopy showed only one overall
type.
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ELLEN KARIN: sample W1: - white streamers from source outflow
filaments of presumably sulphide oxidizing bacteria
(SOB) covered with complex nanoparticulate sulphur mesh (confirmen by EDS)
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