Antipa, Gregory (2021). CIL:39238, uncultured scuticociliate, Conchophthirus curtus, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J00C4V3F

A transverse section of the cortex of Conchophthirus curtus reveals details of cortical structure. This includes the nature of the cell membrane and the alveolar membranes that reside immediately below the surface; fibrillar and microtubular structures that support this ciliated cell, and in the case of Conchophthirus, the cortical mitochondria that may represent a single mitochondrion that has finger-like extensions that lie immediately between the rows of basal bodies and are independent of more typical vesicular mitochondria that reside in the inner cytoplasm. Details of the basal bodies are revealed. The negative magnification is 15,000X. The raw film was scanned with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro. This image is best used for quantitative analysis. For greater detail see:Antipa, G. A. 1971. Structural differentiation in the somatic cortex of a ciliated protozoan, Conchophthirus curtus Engelmann, 1862. Protistologica 7:47l-501.

• 2021

• Antipa, Gregory

Standard glutaraldehyde fixation followed by osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in alcohol and embedded in an epoxy resin. Microtome sections prepared at approximately 65nm thickness.

Preparation: glutaraldehyde fixed tissue; osmium tetroxide fixed tissue; tissue in epoxy resin embedment; microtome-sectioned tissue
Relation to intact cell: microtome-sectioned tissue
Item type: transmission electron microscopy (TEM); illumination by electrons
Imaging mode: detection of electrons; film
Parameter imaged: electron density
Source of contrast: stain with broad specificity
Visualization methods: stain with broad specificity; osmium tetroxide; uranyl salt; lead salt
Processing history: recorded image; film; unprocessed raw data
Data qualification: Raw;spatialmeasurements

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 11106

• Conchophthirus curtus
• Uncultured scuticociliate

• Cell by organism
• Cell cortex
• Ciliated Protist
• Cilium axoneme
• Coated pit
• Cortical cytoskeleton
• Cortical microtubule cytoskeleton
• Eukaryotic cell
• Eukaryotic Protist
• Microtubule basal body
• Mitochondrion
• Plasma membrane

• Clathrin coat assembly
• Cortical cytoskeleton organization
• Microtubule basal body organization
• Mitochondrion organization

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 39238

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J00C4V3F

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL39238

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