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Paramecium and Other Ciliates: Richard Allen's Image Collection

Chapter 1: Paramecium multimicronucleatum - Cortex and Cilia

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Fig. 0: Paramecium cells
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Fig. 1: grazing surface view
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Fig. 2: cilia and cortical structures
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Fig. 3: accessory structures around basal bodies
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Fig. 4: basal body-cilium complex
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Fig. 5a: dynein arms along cilium
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Fig. 5b: QF-DE of ciliary axonemes showing axonemal dynein arms and spokes
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Fig. 6: distal tip of a cilium
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Fig. 7: basal bodies at level attached to kinetodesmal fiber
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Fig. 8: connecting fiber between basal bodies
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Fig. 9: postciliary microtubules and kd fiber
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Fig. 10: transverse microtubular ribbon
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Fig. 11: other microtubules arising from basal bodies
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Fig. 12: fibrous cortical systems
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Fig. 13: striated bands
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Fig. 14: infraciliary lattice
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Fig. 15: planar view of cortex detailing striated bands
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Fig. 16: enlargement of striated band
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Fig. 17: detail of striated band in cross sectioned ridge
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Fig. 18: cross sectioned fibers in cortex
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Fig. 19: another view of cortical fibers
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Fig. 20: granulo-fibrillar material
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Fig. 21: longitudinal sections of fibers
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Fig. 22a: freeze fracture of plates at anterior end of cell
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Fig. 22b: QF-DE image of IMP plates in the plasma membrane
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Fig. 22c: QF-DE image of plates of IMPs in the P-face of the plasma membrane
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Fig. 22d: QF-DE image of 2 plates of IMPs on the P-fracture face of the plasma membrane
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Fig. 23a: QF-DE of fractured cilia above the basal body/cilium connection
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Fig. 23b: QF-DE image of rings around trichocyst discharge sites
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Fig. 24: QF-DE of the infraciliary lattice
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Fig. 25: QF-DE of another area of the lattice with a cross fractured post
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Fig. 26: immunofluorescent images of infraciliary lattices in three species of Paramecium
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Fig. 27: immunogold labeled thin frozen sections for anti-centrin antibody
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Fig. 28: QF-DE image of striated bands between fractured basal bodies
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Fig. 29: detail of QF-DE image of striated band and intermembrane spaces
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Fig. 30: immunofluorescent images of striated bands of two species of Paramecium
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Fig. 31: immunogold label of striated bands
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Fig. 32: immunogold double-labeled with 18nm and 12nm gold
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Fig. 33: QF-DE of granular-fibrillar material
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Fig. 34: drawing of a small portion of the pellicle and cortex of Paramecium multimicronucleatum
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Fig. 35: anti-beta-tubulin immunogold-labeled thin frozen section