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Title
CIL:10010, Didinium nasutum, 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
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
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Description
Toxicysts, extrusive organelles, (sometimes called extrusomes in protistan lingo) in the proter (or anterior daughter) of a dividing cell. Toxicysts can be very long and are aligned along microtubular lamellae that extend from the cytopharynx. Extra myelin-like membrane can be seen bordering two of the three toxicysts shown. At the upper right is the fibrous cortex of Didinium with mucocysts, an extrusive organelle involved when cyst formation occurs. A digesting food vacuole is at the lower left. TEM taken on 5/20/69 by R. Allen with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 6,370X. Bar = 1.0µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. A raw, unprocessed, high resolution versions of this image (CIL:4667 & 7313) are in the library and available for quantitative analysis. Standard glutaraldehyde fixation followed by osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in alcohol and embedded in an epoxy resin. Microtome sections prepared at approximately 75nm thickness. 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:10010, Didinium nasutum, 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/J0NC609F
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb27375333
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Carolina Biological Supply Company, NC, U.S.A
Feeding behavior
Exocyst assembly
Killing of cells of other organism
Food vacuole
Cell cortex
Eukaryotic cell
Toxicyst
Mucocyst
Cell by organism
Eukaryotic Protist
Ciliated Protist
Microtubule associated complex
Didinium nasutum
Cell Image Library Group ID: 3360

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