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Title: CIL:13157, 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
Rights Information: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
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Description: Basal bodies are supported by three fiber systems, a striated kinetodesmal fiber that arises from the proximal end of the basal body and curves upward and anteriorly within the longitudinal ridge to the cell's right side of a row of basal bodies. Extending posteriorly and also curving up into the longitudinal ridge is a ribbon of postciliary microtubules. The kd may extend past several more anterior basal bodies but the postciliary ribbon does not extend beyond the next posterior basal body or pair of basal bodies in the kinety. Only the more posterior of the two basal bodies within a single depression is associated with the ends of these two accessory structures. An indentation of the plasma membrane, the parasomal sac, lies to the cell's right of each basal body or pair of basal bodies. TEM taken on 1/5/73 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 75kV. Neg. 19,500X. Bar = 0.2µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. An unprocessed, high resolution version of this image (CIL:12068) is 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:13157, 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/J0M044JC
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb41710491
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cortical cytoskeleton organization
Microtubule basal body
Cell by organism
Eukaryotic Protist
Kinetodesmal fiber
Microfibril
Cell cortex
Microtubule
Ciliated Protist
Eukaryotic cell
Paramecium multimicronucleatum
Cell Image Library Group ID: 3970

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