Beneath the soil or deep in rotting wood lies the fungal engine-house, the web of microscopic filaments known as the mycelium, which exudes enzymes and breaks down the fungus's food.
Spongiophytes may plausibly be lichens (Stein et al. 1993), but the microscopic filaments that make up nematophytes and Prototaxites lack the typical branching patterns of fungal hyphae.
Fungi are found as isolated microscopic filaments and spherical spores, usually associated with larger fossil plant material.
Lost nets can drift for years, killing fish and marine mammals before being broken down into microscopic filaments that may end up in the food chain.
Porphyra thalli appear in nature as free-living organisms, and their microscopic filaments bore into calcium carbonate substrates such as oyster shells.
Fungi have a plantlike vegetative body consisting of microscopic branching threadlike filaments of various lengths, called hyphae (singular hypha), some of which extend into the air while others penetrate the substrate on which they grow.
Electron microscopic observations showed that the ctenidial filaments of our A. crypta specimens were relatively thick and the symbionts were located in vacuoles in ctenidial epithelial cells, which was similar to that of A. crypta collected from whale bones but not to the one collected on sunken wood in the previous study [27].
Since what is observed in microscopic images of filament formation are actually bundles of actin filaments, we chose the size of actin particles larger than it should be relative to the surface structures.
In addition, by combining CellMask and F-actin staining with laser confocal microscopic examination, they reported inhibition of the formation of lamellipodia and filopodia and disorganization of F-actin filaments of SVEC4-10 cells after treatment with 2DG.
Get microscopic.Inspect that tail fan, each isosceles-trapezoidLeaf eyelash-fringed with filaments of boa,As alert as the hairs on an arm in tidal air.
