The postoral microtubular bundles form a track along which a newly released food vacuole rapidly migrates to the cell’s posterior end. Here the flattened cytopharyngeal membrane lies next to these b...

A longitudinal section of an oral basal body and cilium with the attachment of a bundle of microtubular filaments and a rod that covers the proximal end of the basal body. A layer of filaments underli...

A view of an early endosome with at least two coated evaginations showing, lies next to the proximal end of a fractured basal body. Other clathrin cages may indicate other evaginations from the same e...

Figs. 311 & 312 from Don Fawcett's Chapter 12 (Centrioles). In ciliogenesis, newly formed single centrioles, serving as basal bodies, are arranged in rows and oriented perpendicular to the cell surfac...

Microtubule fragments exhibiting net treadmilling in a Rac1(Q61L)-expressing PtK1 cell. Microtubule plus ends undergo dynamic instability while their minus ends depolymerize, resulting in net treadmil...

Image of the scopula, the stalk forming region at the aboral end of the cell body of Opercularia coarctata. A group of basal bodies each gives rise to a modified cilium that gives rise to a cylinder o...

Image of the scopula, the stalk forming region at the aboral end of the cell body of Opercularia coarctata. A group of basal bodies each gives rise to a modified cilium that gives rise to a cylinder o...

Figs. 314 from Don Fawcett's Chapter 12 (Centrioles). At the base of the flagellum of a mammalian spermatid, the juxtanuclear proximal centriole is continuous (at the arrow) with a structure of simila...

Didinium has two bands of ciliated basal bodies that encircle the cell, one adorally and one aborally. The bands are composed of groups of approximately 15 ciliated basal bodies. This section is a lon...

High resolution image of Didinium (non-dividing) has a massive cytopharynx at its anterior end that takes the shape of a cone-shaped proboscis when closed. This cytopharynx contains numerous lamellae ...