Electron-microscopic structure of protozoa (1963) Electron-microscopic structure of protozoa electronmicrosco00pite Year: 1963 ZOOFLAGELLATES 153 large numbers of flagella and, typically, of some other elements of the mastigont. Of the species studied, the least outrageously complex in its morphology is Lophomonas striata (Text-fig. 9), a rather small, spindle-shaped cell with a tuft of 100 or more flagella arising from a round plate slightly recessed into the anterior pole. From the m P:registeredⓂ️registered:t © Text-figure 9. Schematic drawing of a transverse section of Lophomonas stria
Electron-microscopic structure of protozoa (1963) Electron-microscopic structure of protozoa electronmicrosco00pite Year: 1963 ZOOFLAGELLATES 153 large numbers of flagella and, typically, of some other elements of the mastigont. Of the species studied, the least outrageously complex in its morphology is Lophomonas striata (Text-fig. 9), a rather small, spindle-shaped cell with a tuft of 100 or more flagella arising from a round plate slightly recessed into the anterior pole. From the m P:registeredⓂ️registered:t © Text-figure 9. Schematic drawing of a transverse section of Lophomonas striata. CMP, discontinuous bands or plates of the calyx; F, fibrils composing the calyx bands; N, nucleus; PM, cell membrane over the convoluted folds of the surface; R, rods adhering to the surface. From Beams, King, Tahmisian and Devine, 1960. circumference of the plate, a cylinder called the calyx, consisting of what some light microscopists believe to be multiple axostylar fibers (Kirby, 1949; Grasse, 1952), descends posteriad, enclosing the axial nucleus and tapering to an end in the postnuclear cytoplasm. Peculiar, longitudinally oriented, rod-like striations have been variously interpreted as being cytoplasmic bodies or
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