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Title
CIL:9523, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, plant cell
Creator
McIntosh, J. Richard
Morphew, Mary
Contributor
McIntosh, J. Richard
Morphew, Mary
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.
Use: The person(s) who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.
Description
The single chloroplast of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contains an orange carotenoid pigment spot that functions in phototaxis. The 'eyespot' is seen in this 250 nm epon section imaged with a JEM-1000 TEM at 1000KV as an array of dark spheres.
Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp)
Morphew, Mary; McIntosh, J. Richard (2021). CIL:9523, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, plant cell. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J06Q1WD2
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb49559685
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Strain in culture
Organelle organization
Photosynthesis, light harvesting
Plant cell
Chloroplast
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Cell Image Library Group ID: 11363

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