A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the Devonian Rhynie Chert

Dataset and animation movies related to this submitted paper:

"A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the Devonian Rhynie Chert"

authored by:

Christine Strullu-Derrien1,2*, Tomasz Goral3,4, Alan RT Spencer1,5, Paul Kenrick1, M Catherine Aime6, Ester Gaya7, David L Hawksworth1,7,8,9

1 Science Group, The Natural History Museum, London, UK; 2 Institut Systématique Évolution Biodiversité, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 3 Imaging and Analysis Centre, The Natural History Museum, London, UK; 4 Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; 5 Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; 6 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; 7 Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK; 8 Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130118, Jilin Province, China; 9 Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

What is included in the repository:

Original datasets produced by the Nikon A1-Si for specimens: NHMUK V16403 and NMS G.1925-9-11. In addition .mp4 animations produced from NIS-Elements of these datasets are included.

How to open Nikon ND2 (.nd2) files:

• These files can be open in ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/) using the nd2-reader plugin (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/nd2-reader.html).
• These files can be opened without plugins using FIJI (https://fiji.sc/).
• These files can be opened with NIS-Elements Viewer (https://www.microscope.healthcare.nikon.com/products/software/nis-elements/viewer).