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Title
CIL:36280, Vorticella convallaria, 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
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
Vorticella convallaria has a contractile stalk that arises from the aboral pole of the cell. The myonemes from the body converge at this pole and pass into the stalk to form a large contractile bundle called the spasmoneme. When contracted the stalk coils into a helix. The spasmoneme is partially encased in an extension of the pellicle and a thin layer of cytosol that is enclosed with plasma membrane. An additional secreted sheath surrounds the stalk. TEM taken on 4/6/72 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 75kV. Neg. 7,500X. Bar = 1µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. There is a high resolution version of this image in the library (CIL:39517) which is available for quantitative analysis. 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:36280, Vorticella convallaria, 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/J0RJ4HGS
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb8881081v
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Macronucleus organization
Cambridge Culture Collection, Cambridge, England, # LB1690/1
Contractile system
Plasma membrane organization
Extracellular matrix
Cell by organism
Fibril
Eukaryotic Protist
Eukaryotic cell
Macronucleus
Ciliated Protist
Plasma membrane
Vorticella convallaria
Cell Image Library Group ID: 10493

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