**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:33

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:33

Beautiful #cryoET paper on choanoflagellate #flagella #cilia revealing the enigmatic ciliary vane, new components and similarities to animal cilia
#protist #evolution #EM #choanoflagellate
https://elifesciences.org/articles/78133

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · 2022-11-22T13:35:40Z

Gaspar Jekely @jekely@qoto.org

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

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:37

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:37

Gaspar Jekely @jekely@qoto.org

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

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:38

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:38

Gaspar Jekely @jekely@qoto.org

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

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:40

**Gaspar Jekely** @jekely@qoto.org · Nov 22, 2022, 13:40

Gaspar Jekely @jekely@qoto.org

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

**Mill_lab** @Mill_lab@mstdn.social · Nov 22, 2022, 19:06

**Mill_lab** @Mill_lab@mstdn.social · Nov 22, 2022, 19:06

Mill_lab @Mill_lab@mstdn.social

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