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Title: CIL:36221, 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
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Description: The bottom of the buccal cavity is surrounded by specialized cytoplasm and contains a lip that constricts the opening leading through the cytostome into the receiving vacuole or nascent vacuole. The oral ribs extend along one side of the cytostome and merge into the cytopharynx. Oral ribs have alveoli between the ribs but alveoli stop at the beginning of the cytopharynx. Lamellae, of 2 microtubules each, border the cytopharynx and direct discoidal vesicles to the site of fusion with the membrane of the growing vacuole. Two electron opaque vesicles, called lysosomes by most authors (eg. Nilsson, Biochem. and Phys. of Protozoa, 2nd ed., Vol 2:339-379, 1979, Acad. Press.), which are probably acidosomes, bind to the nascent vacuole membrane. TEM taken on 8/23/67 by R. Allen with Philips 200 operating at 60kV. Neg. 12,400X. Bar = 0.5µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. There is a high resolution version of this image in the library (CIL:39718) which is available for quantitative analysis. Additional information available at (http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/allen/).
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:36221, 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/J0765D84
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb2328114h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Oral apparatus organization
Oral apparatus
Ciliated Protist
Cell by organism
Acidosome
Microtubule associated complex
Cytopharynx
Eukaryotic cell
Primary lysosome
Eukaryotic Protist
Tetrahymena pyriformis
Cell Image Library Group ID: 10648

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