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Fig. 34: myonemes contain centrin

A thin cryosection of Vorticella exposed to a rabbit polyclonal antibody to alpha-centrin and then to gold conjugated to anti-rabbit IgG. The gold indicates that the myoneme (my) contains alpha-centrin. The plasma membrane (pm), outer alveolar membrane (oam) and inner alveolar membrane (iam) all appear as transparent tracks but the lumen of the alveolus (al) appears electron opaque. Thickenings of the ER lying against the myoneme correspond to linkage complexes (lc). m, mitochondrion. EM taken on 8/18/94 by D. Kunkel with Zeiss 10A TEM. Neg. 19,800X. Bar = 0.2µm.
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