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Title: CIL:34534, Tetrahymena pyriformis, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist
Creator: Allen, Richard
Contributor: Allen, Richard
Date Created and/or Issued: 2021
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection: Cell Image Library
Rights Information: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
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Description: A high resolution micrograph. Most wild type Tetrahymena have a macronucleus and a micronucleus. The micronucleus, seen here, is essentially nonfunctional during interphase. Its function is to replicate and pass a complete copy of the genome to each daughter cell and to give rise to a new macronucleus following sexual reproduction. Many laboratory strains, unlike strain W which is shown here, have lost their micronucleus and seem to be able to live indefinitely without a micronucleus, however, they can no longer undergo meiosis and sexual reproduction. TEM taken on 4/8/65 by R. Allen with RCA EMU3F operating at 50kV. Neg. 9,100X. raw film was scanned with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro. This image is best used for quantitative analysis.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:34534, Tetrahymena pyriformis, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0PZ57QH
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb05874468
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Autophagy
Micronucleus organization
Micronucleus
Ciliated Protist
Cytoplasm
Autophagic vacuole
Cell by organism
Eukaryotic Protist
Eukaryotic cell
Tetrahymena pyriformis
Cell Image Library Group ID: 8252

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