CIL:34756, Tetrahymena pyriformis, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. CIL. Dataset

NCBI Organism:Tetrahymena pyriformis; Cell Types:cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, , ; Cell Components:oral apparatus, microtubule basal body, cilium axoneme, cortical microtubule cytoskeleton; Biological process:oral apparatus organization, cortical microtubule organization, cilium axoneme assembly, microtubule basal body organization;

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Description

The undulating membrane is composed of two rows of basal bodies but only the outer row is ciliated. Both basal bodies are fully formed but only the ciliated member has an axosome and 9 + 2 axoneme. The oral ribs each contain two microtubular ribbons of 4 and 2 microtubules respectively and alveoli lie between. TEM taken on 8/25/67 by R. Allen with Philips 200 operating at 60kV. Neg. 2,400X. Bar = 0.1µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. An unprocessed, high resolution versions of this image (CIL:34746 & 34747) are available in the library for quantitative analysis. Additional information available at (http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/allen/).

Technical Details

Standard glutaraldehyde fixation followed by osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in alcohol and embedded in an epoxy resin. Microtome sections prepared at approximately 75nm thickness. Additional information available at (http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/allen/).

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