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Fig. 49: freeze fracture images of membranes of vesicles compared with DV membranes

A comparison of conventional freeze fracture images of the E-fracture faces of (A) discoidal vesicles with (B) the phagosome membrane, (C) the acidosome membrane with (D) the phagoacidosome membrane and (E) lysosome membrane with (F) phagolysosome membranes. It is clear that these three stages of digestive vacuoles (B, D and F) closely resemble the three vesicle populations (A, C and E) that fuse with the digestive vacuole immediately before that vacuole is transformed, respectively. This plate was published as Figure 2 in Fok and Allen, In Paramecium, H.-D. Gortz, ed., Springer Verlag, New York, pp. 301-324, 1988.
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