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Fig. 11: basket lies next to smooth spongiome of contractile vacuole

Cytopharyngeal rods, composed of microtubular bundles, form the wall of the basket. Rod lamellae are attached to one side of each rod. v, cytopharyngeal vesicles; spo, spongiome of a contractile vacuole; arrows, decorated tubule of CVC. EM taken on 3/13/69 by R. Allen with Philips 300 TEM. Neg. 16,000X. Bar = 0.5µm.
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