Beautiful paper on choanoflagellate revealing the enigmatic ciliary vane, new components and similarities to animal cilia

elifesciences.org/articles/781

here is a picture of the central pair, tomographic slices and averages

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and the ciliary vane, which is very different from the mastigonemes of e..g.
A cilium with wings.

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..and the , with some holes in it.
Now we would need a choanoflagellate ciliary .

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The paper is by Justine M Pinskey et al. Daniela Nicastro's lab - are you on Mastodon?

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@jekely I don't think they are Justine is Twitter-bound and Dani's lab has only been on birdsite only for 2 months....

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