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CIL:9914, Opercularia [NCBITaxon:168247], Opercularia coarctata, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist

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Title: CIL:9914, 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
Rights Information: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
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Description: The layer of contractile myonemes in Opercularia coarctata that covers most of the cytosolic side of the pellicle. Pellicular pores (the clathrin coated pits of ciliates) penetrate through this sheet. The ER is spread out against this sheet and, besides having decorated tubules, it bears thinner rails that lie between the ER and the myonemes and spindle-shaped mid pieces. For a description of these rails and mid pieces as they are found in peritrichs. Their function still remains to be determined. TEM taken on 6/7/69 by R. Allen with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 14,800X. Bar = 0.5µm. A print of the negative was scanned and processed in Photoshop. This image is best used for qualitative analysis. A high resolution image (CIL:7331) is 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/).
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Allen, Richard (2021). CIL:9914, 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/J06972PV
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb6457699h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cambridge Culture Collection, Cambridge, England, # LB1657/1
Contractile fiber organization
Membrane corridors
Structural constituent of cytoskeleton
Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Eukaryotic cell
Contractile myonemes
Eukaryotic Protist
Cell by organism
Clathrin coat of coated pit
Ciliated Protist
Opercularia coarctata
Opercularia
Cell Image Library Group ID: 3585

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