The base of an axoneme; a cylinder about 500 nm long that resembles a centriole; the microtubule organizing center of a cilium or a eukaryotic flagellum.
The rotary portion of a flagellum or cilium in Eukarya. The basal body consists of a compound cylinder of nine doublet microtubules. The basal body spans the cell membrane. The compound ring lies in the inner membrane and is part of the flagellar motor. The basal body also includes a rod that spans the cell wall and stabilizing rings. The basal body functions to anchor the flagellum in the cytoplasmic membrane and functions as a rotor during movement. We will, undoubtedly, be required to take all this up further in incredible detail at some other point.
Short cylindrical array of microtubules plus their associated proteins found at the base of a eucaryotic cell cilium or flagellum. Serves as a nucleation site for the growth of the axoneme. Closely similar in structure to a centriole.
Centriole found at the base of a eukaryotic flagellum or cilium.
a single centriole cylinder
A structure in the cytoplasm that anchors microtubules to the cell.
A structure at the base of a cilium or flagellum; consists of nine triplet microtubules arranged in a circle with no central microtubule.
Small granule to which a cilium or flagellum is attached. cf kinetosome.
the base of a flagellum consisting of a cylinder of nine triplet microtubules. This structure arises from the centriole and is also called the kinetosome.
A short cylindrical array of microtubules and other proteins, found at the base of a eukaryotic cilium or flagellum, that organises the assembly of the axoneme (the bundle of microtubules and other proteins forming the core of each cilium or flagellum).
Structure at the base of cilia and flagella from which microtubules forming the axoneme radiate; structurally similar to a centriole.
A basal body is an organelle formed from a centriole, a short cylindrical array of microtubules. It is found at the base of a eukaryotic cell cilium or flagellum and serves as a nucleation site for the growth of the axoneme microtubules. Basal bodies anchor cilia.