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Title: CIL:36657, 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: During self conjugation two cells from a 6-day old culture come together, bridges are formed between them and haploid products of meiotic division of their micronuclei are exchanged between the mating pairs. Two micronuclei are seen here which appear similar to the haploid pronucleus in the paper of Inaba et al. (Proc. Japan Acad. 42:394-398, 1966) which is passing through such a bridge in P. multimicronucleatum. In this micrograph two rounded micronuclei are lying very near the macronucleus. These may be the migratory and stationary pronuclei that will form the diploid synkaryon nucleus from which the new micronuclei and macronucleus will form after further mitotic divisions. Interestingly one of these nuclei appears to be in close contact with the macronucleus. TEM taken on 3/4/80 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 75kV. Neg. 5,000X. Bar = 1µm.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:36657, 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/J0GQ6WRX
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Identifier: ark:/20775/bb2259885r
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Macronucleus organization
Pronuclear migration
Micronucleus organization
Eukaryotic cell
Ciliated Protist
Cell by organism
Macronucleus
Eukaryotic Protist
Pronucleus
Paramecium multimicronucleatum

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