@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1114, 

TITLE={Fluorescence: a tool for highlighting the invisible architectural beauty of life}, 
  
AUTHOR={Anaël Soubigou
, Lucie Subirana
, Stéphanie Bertrand, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Art and Science}, 
	
VOLUME={8}, 

NUMBER={Special issue</br>}, 
	
YEAR={2024}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/Fluorescence-a-tool-for-highlighting-the-invisible-architectural-beauty-of-life}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1114}, 
	
ISSN={2515-8767}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Most animal biodiversity is found in the marine environment, and more particularly in the range of very small animals that are invisible to the human eye. These small animals, or the embryos and larvae of larger animals, are often transparent, and observation under white light illumination allows their outlines to be defined, but is generally not sufficient to understand their organisation. These organisms are made up of tissues, themselves made up of cells, arranged in a very specific way depending on the species or developmental stage. The cells themselves have a complex architecture combining different structures such as the nucleus and the cytoskeleton. Fluorescent labelling has become a powerful and essential tool for understanding how the cells inside these marine animals are arranged. The development of specific microscopes for imaging fluorescence and digital tools for analysing the images obtained and creating three-dimensional reconstructions of the structures observed now offer an incredible opportunity to describe the fine organisation of marine organisms. These approaches generate aesthetically pleasing images, combining information of scientific interest with the poetry of renewed naturalist imagery.}}