An image of the nucleoli of the macronucleus. Nucleoli have a core of DNA that contains the genes that are transcribed into ribosomal RNA. Assembly of the ribosomal subunits from this processed RNA an...

Most wild type Tetrahymena have a macronucleus and a micronucleus. The micronucleus, seen here, is essentially nonfunctional during interphase. Its function is to replicate and pass a complete copy of...

An image of the cortex of Tetrahymena showing a longitudinal microtubular ribbon sandwiched between the alveoli and the epiplasm in the crest of the pellicular ridge. A parasomal sac, the distal end o...

A mAb, B25-1-3, was raised to antigen Q2 (arbitrary code) to the same set of membranes as mAb 132-F4-G6 labels. This mAb was more reactive on frozen sections. To tell the age of vacuoles, cells were e...

Monoclonal antibody, E30-2-1, was raised to antigen D6 that specifically labels acidosomes and DV-II. There was no label on the nascent vacuole membrane or ciliary membranes. This cell had been incuba...

Following discharge, remnant trichocyst membrane does not appear to directly enter the trans Golgi network for reuse in new trichocyst formation. Rather the HRP will be transferred to lysosomes (not s...

Receptor mediated endocytosis is a process in which extracellular molecules are taken into the cell via coated vesicles that pinch from the plasma membrane. In Paramecium the resulting vesicles fuse w...

TEM image of frozen hydrated soluble chromatin isolated from chicken erythrocyte nuclei and vitrified in low salt. Polynucleosomes adopt an irregular zigzag fiber conformation (a,b,k), and show a 'ste...

Immunogold label specific for Q2 antigen on discoidal vesicles. The same mAb used in CIL:36721 heavily labels discoidal vesicles and less heavily the cytopharyngeal membrane. A few gold particles are ...

The image shows a slice through a 3D tomographic reconstruction of a mouse adenocarcinoma cell based on x-ray microscopy. Live cells were cryofixed by plunge freezing in liquid ethane and the vitrifi...