A high resolution image that shows a dikinetid which is set in a shallow basin in the cell surface. The pair of basal bodies have a proximal cartwheel and a dense septum (not found in most bbs) just d...

A high resolution cross section showing only one basal body in two different dikinetids. Cross sections of overlapping microtubular ribbons arising from the dikinetids are seen in the ridges next to t...

A post ciliary microtubular ribbon extends from the proximal left side of the basal body and arches toward the cell surface where it ends near the longitudinal microtubular ribbon at the crest of the ...

The new oral region in the opisthe starts to form as an unorganized field of new basal bodies develops at the equator of the cell surface. At first these do not resemble membranelles although some bas...

A more extensive freeze-fracture view of the membranelles on the left side of the buccal cavity. Fractures of eighty or more basal bodies can be counted in each of the dorsal three rows of the dorsal ...

High resolution image of Colpoda. A soil ciliate and this micrograph is characterized by numerous mucocysts and food vacuoles containing bacteria in various stages of digestion. This electron microgra...

Up to three basal bodies have been seen in various stages of development near a mature basal body/cilium complex. In this micrograph 2 new basal bodies are present next to 2 cilia and 3 are forming ne...

High resolution image of Nassula sp. showing rows of cross-sectioned basal bodies at the cell surface. TEM taken on 3/4/69 by R. Allen with Philips 300 operating at 60kV. Neg. 16,000X. The raw film wa...

High resolution image of the microtubular nemadesmata that extend deep into the cytosol from the membranelles of the perioral kinetids. Bridges link the plasma membrane to the alveoli. Parasomal sacs ...

A high resolution image of a cortical monokinetid showing the basal body as well as postciliary and transverse microtubular ribbons. Slender endosomal vesicles accumulate near the bottom of a parasoma...