Morphew, Mary; McIntosh, J. Richard (2021). CIL:9524, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, plant cell. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0RB73RG

The single chloroplast of the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii contains an orange carotenoid pigment spot that functions in phototaxis. The 'eyespot' is seen in this 250 nm epon section imaged with a JEM-1000 TEM at 1000KV as an array of dark spheres.

• 2021

• McIntosh, J. Richard
• Morphew, Mary

This image was taken at +6 degrees tilt - two others in the grouped image set were recorded at -6 and 0 degrees tilt

Preparation: glutaraldehyde fixed tissue; tissue in plastic embedment
Relation to intact cell: microtome-sectioned tissue
Item type: transmission electron microscopy (TEM); film
Imaging mode: detection of electrons
Parameter imaged: electron density
Source of contrast: elastic scattering of electrons
Visualization methods: uranyl salt
Processing history: unprocessed raw data

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 11363

• Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

• Chloroplast
• Plant cell

• Organelle organization
• Photosynthesis, light harvesting
• Strain in culture

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 9524

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0RB73RG

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL9524

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