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Welcome to funky town

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The parasite Maullinia ectocarpii in its brown algal host Macrocystis pyrifera. The antibody labelled brown algal cell wall is shown in green and the nuclei of the brown alga and the parasite are labelled with Hoechst (blue). Autofluorescence of algal chloroplasts (pink) can sometimes be troublesome when working with fluorescent dyes, but here it nicely completes the image. This image was taken with a Nikon Eclipse Ti2-E fluorescence microscope and is a maximum projection of a z-stack.