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A circular depression on the dorsal surface of the cell marks the expulsion site of a contractile vacuole. This is referred to as the contractile vacuole “pore.". Microtubules encircle the pore. Trichocyst tips are pushed to one side by this large opening. Cacodylate buffered fixative. TEM taken on 9/27/68 by R. Allen with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 16,000X. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:38894, Paramecium caudatum, 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/J0VT1RFS
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