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Title: CIL:24577, Balamuthia mandrillaris, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Amoeboid Protist
Creator: Dunnebacke, Thelma
Contributor: Dunnebacke, Thelma
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: A single frame from the movie (CIL:20154) that shows a large rounded monkey kidney cell being penetrated by a pseudopodium followed by the whole Balamuthia ameba. Detection of the ameba within, rather than on, or beneath the cell is indicated by the change in clarity of the ameba outside and then inside the cell's exterior membrane. The ameba with splayed pseudopodia had begun to enter in apparently a slit in the surface of the cell. The integrity of the cell is maintained and its size does not change appreciably. The portion of the ameba within the cell is less clear than that portion still outside, and as it continues movement within the cell that continues until only a small portion (tail) of the ameba remains outside. Photographed at 1200X. Additional photographs (grouped with this movie) show the movement of the ameba inside of the cell its movement deforms the rounded exterior membrane before the whole ameba emerges some 20 minutes later.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Dunnebacke, Thelma (2021). CIL:24577, Balamuthia mandrillaris, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Amoeboid Protist. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J01N809C
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb4819549q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pseudopodium retraction
Pseudopodium assembly
Pseudopodium organization
RP5
Cell by organism
Amoeboid Protist
Eukaryotic Protist
Pseudopodium
Eukaryotic cell
Cell
Balamuthia mandrillaris
Cell Image Library Group ID: 7864

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