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Title: CIL:7335, Opercularia [NCBITaxon:168247], Opercularia coarctata, 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
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Description: High resolution micrograph showing an overview of the peristome of Opercularia coarctata. The corrugated wall, the equivalent to the ribbed wall of Paramecium, contains tubular projections of alveoli and cross sections of two ribbons of microtubules, one of 2 microtubules and one of 4 microtubules. The ends of these ribbons, at their origins, are covered by a myoneme which, in turn, is accompanied by a layer of ER. The microtubules will extend along the wall of the peristome and some will pass beyond the cytostome to form the lamellae of the cytopharynx. Vesicles bind to the lamellae and provide membrane for the nascent food vacuole. Oral polykinetids, myoneme, endoplasmic reticulum, contractile vacuole, microtubular ribbons, pellicular pores, and Golgi complex can be seen. TEM taken on 6/10/69 by R. Allen with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 14,800X. The raw film was scanned with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro. This image is suitable 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:7335, Opercularia [NCBITaxon:168247], Opercularia coarctata, 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/J08W3CB2
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb5194812v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Intracellular organization
Cambridge Culture Collection, Cambridge, England, # LB1657/1
Ingestion
Contractile vacuole
Eukaryotic cell
Eukaryotic Protist
Ciliated Protist
Oral apparatus
Cell by organism
Microtubule basal body
Opercularia coarctata
Opercularia
Cell Image Library Group ID: 3591

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