Figs. 307 & 308 from Don Fawcett's Chapter 12 (Centrioles). In interphase cells, microtubules commonly radiate from the centrosome, and in dividing cells the microtubules of the mitotic spindle conver...

Cross-section of one of the centrioles of a diplosome and the surrounding region. The cells of a ciliated epithelium often produce many cilia, each of which grows from a 'basal body,' a structure that...

Four centrioles imaged in one electron micrograph of a thin section, cut from a Chinese hamster fibroblast grown in tissue culture. The two centrioles that appear circular are the 'mother' centrioles,...