Like other peritrichs the pellicle of Vorticella convallaria is sculpted into ridges and grooves that circle the cell perpendicular to the aboral/adoral axis of the cell body. Pellicular pores penetra...

A thin cryosection of Vorticella exposed to a rabbit polyclonal antibody to alpha-centrin and then to gold conjugated to anti-rabbit IgG. The gold indicates that the myoneme contains alpha-centrin. Th...

The 11 micrographs of the group are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 1 food vacuole; micronucleus; contr...

The 11 micrographs of the group are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows the edge of last food vacuole in se...

The 11 micrographs of the group are views of a serially-sectioned contracted Vorticella convallaria cell that show the main features of this cell. This figure shows 3 food vacuoles; 2 segments of the ...