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Title: CIL:36650, Paramecium multimicronucleatum, 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
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Description: Except that the nuclear envelope remains intact, micronuclear mitosis occurs in a normal way passing through the four stages of prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. In this example a micronucleus was sectioned in early anaphase and shows condensed daughter chromosomes at each pole. Chromosomes are separated by a large bundle of microtubules making up an intranuclear spindle. The separation spindle will become a very long thin tube (see Fig.20 in Allen, Ueno and Fok, J. Protozool. 35:400-407, 1988). The image shown here has very low contrast because the cell was taken from a culture in which a 15 minute treatment in ammonium chloride was used to see what effect this base would have on its acidic compartments. The cell was then incubated in diaminobenzidine. As usual the cristae of mitochondria become electron-opaque following this treatment. TEM taken on 6/11/86 by R. Allen with Zeiss 10A operating at 80kV. Neg. 4,000X. Bar = 1µm.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:36650, Paramecium multimicronucleatum, 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/J0X9297J
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Identifier: ark:/20775/bb18844539
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Nuclear division
Cell by organism
Micronucleus
Eukaryotic Protist
Ciliated Protist
Eukaryotic cell
Paramecium multimicronucleatum

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