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Chapter 10a: Paramecium caudatum

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Fig. 0: Paramecium caudatum cell
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Fig. 1: Pca - low mag of Paramecium caudatum in cross section
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Fig. 2: Pca - grazing section of cell surface
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Fig. 3: Pca - cilium and pellicle
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Fig. 4: Pca - contractile vacuole pore
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Fig. 5: Pca - flattened alveolar sac
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Fig. 6: Pca - septal pores between alveoli
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Fig. 7: Pca - detail of septal pores
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Fig. 8: Pca - cilium in cross section
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Fig. 9: Pca - basal bodies in cross section
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Fig. 10: Pca - kinetodesmal fibers
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Fig. 11: Pca - kinetodesmal fibers overlap in longitudinal ridges
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Fig. 12: Pca - parasomal sacs and endocytosis
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Fig. 13: Pca - receptor mediated endocytosis
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Fig. 14: Pca - endocytosis in oral region
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Fig. 15: Pca - mitochondrion with tubular and helically wrapped cristae
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Fig. 16: Pca - cytoplasmic organelles and granules
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Fig. 17: Pca - Golgi complex and dictyosomes
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Fig. 18: Pca - trichocyst and glycogen granules
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Fig. 19: Pca - discharge of trichocyst
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Fig. 20: Pca - paracrystalline nature of trichocyst
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Fig. 21: Pca - developing trichocyst
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Fig. 22: Pca - oral region in cross section at its anterior end
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Fig. 23: Pca - oral region in cross section posterior to vestibulum
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Fig. 24: Pca - oral region in cross section at level of cytopharynx
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Fig. 25: Pca - oral region cross sectioned through its posterior end
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Fig. 26: Pca - detail of ribbed wall and cytopharynx junction
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Fig. 27: Pca - membranelles and cytopharynx of the oral region
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Fig. 28: Pca - left edge of the cytopharynx
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Fig. 29: Pca - cytopharyngeal ribbons and nascent phagosome
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Fig. 30: Pca - growth of nascent phagosome
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Fig. 31: Pca - cytostomal cord and filamentous reticulum
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Fig. 32: Pca - association of alveoli with cytostomal cord
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Fig. 33: Pca - fusion of discoidal vesicles at cytopharynx
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Fig. 34: Pca - detail of the origin of cytopharygneal ribbons
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Fig. 35: Pca - detail of the origin of cytopharynxgeal ribbons and qar
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Fig. 36: Pca - extensions of cytopharyngeal ribbons into endoplasm
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Fig. 37: Pca - acidosomes dock at cytopharyngeal membrane
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Fig. 38: Pca - carrier vesicles dock at acidosomes (bottom of figure)
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Fig. 39: Pca - carrier vesicles along microtubules
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Fig. 40: Pca - posterior end of buccal cavity with nascent phagosome
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Fig. 41: Pca - phagoacidosome and docked lysosomes
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Fig. 42: Pca - phagolysosome after lysosome fusion
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Fig. 43: Pca - cytoproct with spent vacuole nearby
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Fig. 44: Pca - microtubules guide the DV-IV to the cytoproct
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Fig. 45: Pca - microtubules extend from cytoproct ridge
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Fig. 46: Pca - collecting canal and spongiomes of CVC
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Fig. 47: Pca - single micronucleus of P. caudatum
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Fig. 48: Pca - micronucleus in division and macronucleus
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Fig. 49: Pca - nucleoli in macronucleus
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Fig. 50: Pca - Con A labeled nuclei in interphase and division