CIL:36278, Vorticella convallaria, cell by organism, eukaryotic cell, Eukaryotic Protist, Ciliated Protist. In Cell Image Library

Contractile vacuole pore in face view illustrating the microtubular ribbons that extend from the pore to the CV membrane, the coil of microtubules that surrounds the pore and smaller pellicular pores that appear in the pellicle-bound chamber into which the CV empties. TEM taken on 2/15/72 by R. Allen with Hitachi HU11A operating at 75kV. Neg. 19,500X. Bar = 0.5µm. The negative was printed to paper and the image was scanned to Photoshop. This digitized image is available for qualitative analysis. There is a high resolution version of this image in the library (CIL:39506) which is available for quantitative analysis. Additional information available at (http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/allen/).