Vorticella convallaria has a contractile stalk that arises from the aboral pole of the cell. The myonemes from the body converge at this pole and pass into the stalk to form a large contractile bundle...

Another view of the cytopharynx but in a dividing Didinium. This cytopharynx is in the proter (anterior) daughter cell. The lamellae, each consisting of a set of perpendicularly arranged microtubules ...

Cell sectioned perpendicular to the surface. The parasomal sac ends internally as a coated pit, coated with clathrin. Where the coated pit has pinched off a clathrin-coated vesicle is formed. When the...

A transverse section near the tip of the oral proboscis of Didinium. This micrograph shows the extrusive organelles of the mucocysts adjacent to the plasma membrane, the toxicysts in a circular ring a...

Freeze fracture of the plasma membrane and outer alveolar membrane of the pellicle of V. microstoma. The surface of Vorticella is encircled by rings which follow the septa of underlying alveoli. In th...

A grazing section through the cell’s surface shows segments of six rows of cilia running across the figure sectioned superfically at the top and deeper into the cell as one progresses down the figur...

Cross section of a cilium showing the 9 + 2 axoneme. Two dynein arms, inner and outer, of heterogeneous appearance arise from the complete microtubule of each doublet. Spokes extend from the doublets ...

Lamellae of cytopharynx in the opisthe of a dividing cell. This cytopharynx is not yet functional and lacks most of the medium dense vesicles that accumulate between the lamellae. Toxicysts are presen...

High resolution image of a cell sectioned perpendicular to the surface. The parasomal sac ends internally as a coated pit, coated with clathrin. Where the coated pit has pinched off a clathrin-coated ...

Paramecium multimicronucleatum is covered with cilia which cilia arise from regular surface depressions roughly rectangular in shape. This image is adapted with permission from Fig. 1 in J. Cell Biol....