VCE examples: recording diagnostic parts while screening samples

Routine screening of fixed nematodes mounted in slides with coverslip

(under construction)

Routine screening of heat-killed nematodes in cavity slides without coverslip

Specimens are killed at 65C on a cavity slide, and captured using Configuration 2 with its 100x/NA 1.0 water immersion objective and 1x/1.25x/1.6x/2x magnification changer. The resulting clips at 100x, while definitely inferior to results that would be obtained with oil immersion objectives, are nevertheless good enough to allow routine screening, identification and VCE archiving of nematodes straight from extract, without any fixation or mounting under coverslip.

We do not provide an image map for these specimens, as this step would obviously be too time-consuming in a situation where tens or hundreds of nematodes were processed in a routine sample screening.


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Paul De Ley & Wim Bert - June 13th 2001