A motility in the eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating.

doi:10.1073/pnas.90.12.5519

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A motility in the eukaryotic flagellum unrelated to flagellar beating.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Jun 1993

Kozminski K G, Johnson K A, Forscher P, Rosenbaum J L

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We report a motility in the flagella of the green alga Chlamydomonas that is unrelated to dynein-based flagellar beating. This motility, referred to as intraflagellar transport, was observed as the rapid bidirectional movement of granule-like particles along the length of the flagella. Intraflage...

Topics

Animals
Cell Movement
Chlamydomonas
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Flagella
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Video Recording

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