| Title: Spinnerets of the Garden Spider
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: The spinnerets are the structures at the end of the spider abdomen that connect internally with the silk glands and project outside the secretions that combine to produce the web silk. This is a magnified view of the spinnerets of the common garden spider, Araneus diadematus.
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| Title: Pennsylvania Leatherwing
Contact: Ikumi Kayama
Description: Habitus image for an entomological atlas for scientists.
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| Title: Carotid Endarterectomy 1
Contact: Sara Krause
Description: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) - exposure of the carotid artery.
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| Title: Variety of Flowering Dogwood Trees
Contact: Kate Fady
Description: Illustration of varieties of Flowering Dogwood trees which include: leaves, autumn leaves with buds, flowers, fruit. Gouache on paper
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| Title: Mammals! Assorted spot art illustrations
Contact: Elizabeth Morales
Description: Assorted spot art illustrations of mammals that were incorporated into various graphs. Specific genus and species available upon request.
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| Title: Water Cycle
Contact: Jane Whitney
Description:
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| Title: Amon detail 2a
Contact: Cindy Shaw
Description:
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| Title: Building Blocks of Life (Lego DNA)
Contact: Dr Jon Heras
Description: Concept showing the “building blocks of life”, i.e. DNA, as being made out of individual bricks (yes, Lego again!). This was designed to represent genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
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| Title: Nephrolepis exaltata Bostoniensis
Contact: MaryBeth Hinrichs
Description: A relatively common Boston fern in an uncommon composition and an extensive study in stippling!
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| Title: Boxer dog portrait
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: This canine drawing of a boxer dog was created by biological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration. As a dog portrait, it would be useful in veterinary illustration, or as natural science artwork or pet art.
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| Title: Red Sea Urchin
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Fossil leaf venation
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: These pen & ink drawings show the patterns of veins preserved in fossil leaves. The specimens were preserved in a volcanic ash, and an amazing amount of detail remains in the fossils, especially when drawn under the microscope.
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| Title: Permafrost in the Arctic
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: A cut-away showing the layer of permafrost beneath the surface of arctic tundra, and the short root systems plants have to survive.
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| Title: Cattail Illustration
Contact: Gina Mikel
Description: Cattails (Typha latifolia), watercolor pencil & watercolor illustration
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| Title: ortho-Aminobiphenyl A15
Contact: Pamela Gleave
Description: Photomicrograph of recrystallized ortho-Aminobiphenyl .
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| Title: Tomato horn worm and parasitic wasp
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: A species of parasitic wasp lays its eggs on the Tomato Horn Worm caterpillar. The eggs hatch and the larvae attach themselves to the caterpillar from which they get all their nurishment. Eventually they pupate and the caterpiller will die.
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| Title: Silverback Mountain Gorilla
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Male (Silverback) Mountain Gorilla
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| Title: Ground Stone Tools
Contact: Brittany Walla
Description: Ground Stone Tools
Pen and Ink on Vellum
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| Title: Panda Yard Detail, Right
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Detail of right side of Panda Yard interpretive panel commissioned by the National Zoo.
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| Title: Tree of life
Contact: John Megahan
Description: Diversity of Life. Main page for interactive museum exhibit.
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| Title: Green Swamp- Left side detail
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: The Green Swamp of North Carolina is a Nature Conservancy area encompassing some of the last remaining Wiregrass-Long Leaf Pine habitats of the American South East. The area is considered to be a region of enormous botanical biodiversity. The flora includes a substantial number of vanilloid orchids and carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap and the Yellow pitcher plant. The painting was prepared under the aegis of Dr. Ken Cameron of the New York Botanical Gardens.
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| Title: Atlantic Puffin
Contact: Jennifer Fairman, CMI
Description:
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| Title: Robber Fly Study
Contact: Karen Johnson
Description: Watercolor and pencil study of a robber fly in the family Asilidae. Includes a close detailed image as well as an image showing the fly in action.
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| Title: Sea Otter
Contact: Chris Gralapp
Description: Sea Otters carry their food and their dining implements.
Created for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Internal Ear Anatomy
Contact: John Norton
Description: Ear anatomy for a textbook.
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| Title: Titanosaur Embryo
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Titanosaur embryo image created under the direction of Dr. Luis Chiappe.
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| Title: Green Forest
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Kansas, 295 million years BPE. Seymouria eyes a
giant millipede as potential lunch, looking out from
behind the stump of a lycopod tree.
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| Title: Amphibian Extinctions
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: This illustration shows frogs that are presumed extinct from around the world. It was done for the National Geographic Magazine May 2001 feature, The Fragile World of Frogs. The frogs shown are Atelopus cruciger, Eleutherodactylus jasperi, Bufo
periglenes, Rheobatrachus silus, Litoria nyakalensis, Discoglossus nigriventer and Rana fisheri.
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| Title: American Kestrel
Contact: Kathleen McKeehen
Description: Trompe l'Oeil of wing, skull, egg; watercolor & pencil
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| Title: Earliest Indigenous African Agriculture
Contact: Emil Huston
Description: Earliest Indigenous African Agriculture
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| Title: Desert Scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis)
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Scorpion- airbrush illustration created for North Carolina Museum of Natural History
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| Title: Ecology - Organisims to Ecosystems
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: From McGraw Hill: Enviornmental Science 6th
Edition, Enger, Smith.
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| Title: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Contact: Theophilus Britt Griswold
Description: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Heading toward L2.
This is a digital image created in photoshop showing the WMAP mission as it appeared soon after launch in June 2001. This image may be distributed only with the permission of the NASA / WMAP ScienceTeam..
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| Title: Cat Scratching
Contact: Lesley Sealing
Description: A drawing showing the skeleton of a cat scratching a vertical post
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| Title: Multivalency in complement cytotoxicity
Contact: Mary O'Reilly
Description: This image was made for a lecture on multivalency to describe how complement-dependent cytotoxicity uses multivalency on two levels: one to recognize the antigen using a decavalent antibody (IgM), and another to use a hexameric protein complex to recognize the IgM. Following this recognition process, a cascade of proteolytic events leads to lysis of the target cell.
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| Title: Cow digestive tract
Contact: Carlyn Iverson
Description: View of cow, a ruminant, showing the four stomach chambers for digestion
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| Title: Salt Creek Tiger Beetle
Contact: Dorothia Rohner
Description: Salt Creek Tiger Beetle. Created for the "Salt Creek Environment: Local and Endangered," an entomology/conservation-themed exhibit at the Haydon Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. Oil on paper.
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| Title: Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, detail
Contact: Gail Guth
Description: Watercolor illustration of Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, (Clamator coromandus); detail of Plate 48, for field guide "Philippine Birds by John E. DuPont.
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| Title: Beaker and Flask
Contact: Jane Whitney
Description: 3D models of a beaker and an Erlenmeyer flask
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| Title: Cancer Close-up
Contact: Science Picture Company
Description: Stylized microscopic view of cancer cells.
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| Title: Monarch butterfly
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: This monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) was created digitally with 5ft wide. Commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution, was printed in various sizes and mounted on three-dimensional wire structures that decorate a butterfly exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Sea Otter
Contact: Ikumi Kayama
Description: Image depicting habitat and behavior of the sea otter for the general audience.
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| Title: Carotid Endarterectomy 2
Contact: Sara Krause
Description: After the exposure of the carotid artery, it is opened to give access to the plaque. A shunt is placed within the artery to maintain blood flow during the surgery.
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| Title: Bones of the Human Skull
Contact: Elizabeth Morales
Description:
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| Title: Amon detail 3
Contact: Cindy Shaw
Description:
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| Title: Helical Nanotube
Contact: Dr Jon Heras
Description: A theoretical, stable, helical nanotube structure, which is analogous to that seen in crystal growth affected by screw dislocations.
The structure is composed of 5, 6 and 7 membered-rings. Carbon rings with 5 members are shown in red, 6 in grey and seven in yellow.
There is a passing resemblance to the spiral structure of DNA (but a single helix, obviously).
Also referred to as "helicoidal graphite"
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| Title: Sablefish
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) is a species of deep sea fish common to the North Pacific ocean. It is a highly desirable dinner item, especially in Japan. Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Gompotherium
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: Gompotherium is an ancestor of the modern elephant that lived in the Miocene. It had 4 tusks and stood about 10 feet high. This scratchboard illustration was part of a project documenting fossil mammals from the Barstow Fossil Beds.
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| Title: Theory's Role in Biology
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: Created for the National Academy of Sciences for their report on the role of theory in biology; from the basis of evolution, to metabolic pathways, ecology, biomechanics, genetics and more.
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| Title: American Lotus Illustration
Contact: Gina Mikel
Description: Illustration of American Lotus (Nelumbo lutea), watercolor pencil & watercolor
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| Title: ortho-Aminobiphenyl A9
Contact: Pamela Gleave
Description: Photomicrograph of recrystallized ortho-Aminobiphenyl .
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| Title: Carpenter Ant
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Anatomy of a carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus). The image is available with or without lables.
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| Title: Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Contact: Erica Beade
Description: This illustration describes how a hydrogen fuel cell works. The image was created using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
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| Title: Meadowlark Speciation
Contact: Barbara Harmon
Description: Eastern and Western Meadowlark species appear very similar but have diverged due to geographic constraints.
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| Title: Namibian Beetle Stenocara gracilipes
Contact: Melisa Beveridge
Description: Gouache painting of a Stenocara Beetle collecting water droplets on its back atop a sand dune in the Namibian desert. This will be on a television program by Minnesota PBS Dragonfly TV in December 2008.
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| Title: Pestle 1
Contact: Brittany Walla
Description: Pestle Stone Tool
Pen and Ink on Vellum
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| Title: Bamboo Habit
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Illustration for intrepretive panel showing the anatomy of the bamboo tree. Commissioned by the National Zoo for the Asia Trail exhibit.
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| Title: Pond food web
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: Illustration of food web elements in a freshwater ecosystem, specifically in a pond or lake. It shows nutrient cycling, from plants to microinvertebrates to fish, invertebrates, and higher level predators such as osprey. Produced as a still image for an educational nature video, for elementary and high school students. Adobe Illustrator was used to create this artwork.
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| Title: Normal bone and bone with osteoporosis
Contact: Denise Wagner
Description: Computer painting of a normal bone versus a bone with osteoporosis.
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| Title: Pink Anemone Heteractic malu
Contact: Anthony Galvan III
Description: Pink or Delicate Anemone. Color pencil on black board. For self-promotional material.
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| Title: Green Swamp- Right side detail
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: The Green Swamp of North Carolina is a Nature Conservancy area encompassing some of the last remaining Wiregrass-Long Leaf Pine habitats of the American South East. The area is considered to be a region of enormous botanical biodiversity. The flora includes a substantial number of vanilloid orchids and carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap and the Yellow pitcher plant. The painting was prepared under the aegis of Dr. Ken Cameron of the New York Botanical Gardens.
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| Title: Salmonella
Contact: Jennifer Fairman, CMI
Description:
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| Title: Praying Mantis Study
Contact: Karen Johnson
Description: Watercolor and pencil study page of the Chinese praying mantis.
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| Title: Sloth
Contact: Chris Gralapp
Description: The Three-toed Sloth is perfectly adpted for it's leisurely life in the trees.
Created for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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