Motion Analysis System and a Video Equipped Compound Microscope for the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

向该部提供资金。伍兹霍尔的生物学 海洋学研究所（WHOI）购置设备 建立一个高分辨率视频分析设施， 生物系统。 该设备包括一个倒置的灯 显微镜，带有用于制作视频图像的附件，以及 用于量化细胞运动的计算机化运动分析系统， 纤毛进食机制和捕食者-猎物的相互作用， 各种海洋生物。 最近的研究强调， 海洋生态系统中的能量流动 受到浮游生物细胞间相互作用的影响， 关于浮游生物在海洋中的作用的几个“经典概念”， 海洋食物链正在被重新评估， 浮游生物 处理保存标本的传统方法 已经不足以评估 种群内生物的相互作用。 收购 拟议的视频设备将协助WHOI调查人员研究， 更好地理解生理、行为和生态 影响海洋食物营养相互作用的原则 链

Funding is provided to the Dept. of Biology at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for the acquisition of equipment to establish a facility for high resolution video analysis of biological systems. The equipment consists of an inverted light microscope with attachments for making video images, and a computerized motion analysis system for quantifying cell movement, ciliary feeding mechanisms, and predator-prey interactions in a variety of marine organisms. Recent studies have underscored the fact that the flow of energy in marine ecosystems is greatly influenced by cell-to-cell interactions of plankton, and that several "classical concepts" regarding the role of plankton in the marine food chain are being reevaluated as are methods of studying plankton. Traditional methods of working with preserved specimens are no longer considered adequate to assess the complex interactions of organisms within a population. Aquisition of the proposed video equipment will assist WHOI investigators study and better understand the physiological, behavioral, and ecological principles that affect trophic interaction in the marine food chain.