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CIL:40904, uncultured scuticociliate, Conchophthirus curtus, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist

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Title: CIL:40904, uncultured scuticociliate, Conchophthirus curtus, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist
Creator: Antipa, Gregory
Contributor: Antipa, Gregory
Date Created and/or Issued: 2021
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program
Collection: Cell Image Library
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Description: Conchophthirus was deciliated by calcium ion shock followed by shearing through a micropipette. This revealed the location of the deciliated basal bodies and the cell's surface architecture. In this image of the suture line where the left and right side rows of basal bodies converge, one can observe the distribution of the ciliature, and at the suture line the location of the deciliated caudal basal bodies to which 10-20 long caudal cilia are attached. These cilia seem to act as a rudder to help guide the organism as the active beating cilia of locomotor cilia propagate the organism through the media. Also note that, when zoomed in, in this preparation the clathrin coated pits, which are normally an invagination into the cytoplasm have everted following the deciliation procedure, to form a small evagination anterior to the stubb of each deciliated basal body. For more information see: Antipa, G. A. and Small, E. B. 1971. A redescription of Conchophthirus curtus Engelmann, 1862 (Protozoa, Ciliatea). J. Protozool. 18:491-503. This micrograph was taken in 1968 by G. Antipa on a Cambridge Mark IIA operating at 20kV. The negative magnification is 765X. The raw film was scanned with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro. This image is available for quantitative analysis. In order to be viewed properly, the micrograph needs to be flipped either vertically or horizontally as it is presented here in the inverted position
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Antipa, Gregory (2021). CIL:40904, uncultured scuticociliate, Conchophthirus curtus, 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/J0GF0SV0
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb62873124
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cortical cytoskeleton organization
Eukaryotic Protist
Cell by organism
Caudal cilia
Cilium
Coated pit
Ciliated Protist
Eukaryotic cell
Uncultured scuticociliate
Conchophthirus curtus
Cell Image Library Group ID: 11663

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