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Echinoderm sperm nuclei are unusual in that chromatin fibers are clearly seen, allowing their diameter to be accurately determined. Here, sperm from the starfish P. miniata were treated to remove the outer membrane, cryo-fixed by plunging into liquid ethane, freeze-substituted in acetone and low-temperature embedded in Lowicryl K11M. Thin sections were stained with uranyl acetate, and examined using a FEI CM10 TEM operated at 100KV. This image shows the three major components of the sperm cell, the crescent-shaped mitochondrion ad-pressed to the cup-shaped nucleus which surrounds the darkly-stained acrosome. Close-packed chromatin fibers are clearly seen in the nucleus Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Woodcock, Christopher (2021). CIL:448, Patiria miniata, sperm. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0WD3ZT4
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image
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Subject
Nucleus organization Reproduction Structural constituent of chromatin Male germ cell nucleus Sperm Patiria miniata Cell Image Library Group ID: 10230
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