NIGMS Image Gallery

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Sample Image

This sculpture made of purple and clear glass beads depicts bacteriophage Phi174, a virus that infects bacteria. It rests on a surface that portrays an adaptive landscape, a conceptual visualization. The ridges represent the gene combinations associated with the greatest fitness levels of the virus, as measured by how quickly the virus can reproduce itself. Phi174 is an important model system for studies of viral evolution because its genome can readily be sequenced as it evolves under defined laboratory conditions.

Featured in the March 21, 2006, issue of Biomedical Beat.

Other Image Galleries

Biomedical Beat Cool Image Gallery
The images in this gallery have appeared in previous issues of the NIGMS e-newsletter Biomedical Beat.

Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) Image Gallery
The images in this gallery include people, machines and methods, and structures, from the PSI Centers.

Media Contacts Image Gallery
The images in this gallery feature experts available to discuss research areas supported by NIGMS.