<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> Protistiary Inventory of Cell Components

INVENTORY OF CELL COMPONENTS - A LIST OF CHARACTERS AND CHARACTER STATES

 

 

So far, only the mitochondria have been documented

Category Characteristic (character) Variant form of organelle
(character state) 		Notes Groups in which this has been found References
FLAGELLA NUMBER one      
    two      
    more in pairs      
    more in rows      
  AXONEME conventional 9+2      
    not 9+2      
  PARAXONEMAL ROD none      
    crystalline      
    non crystalline      
  EXCRESCENCES scales      
    non-tubular hairs      
    tripartite tubular hairs      
    scaley hairs      
    non-tripartite tubular hairs      
  WINGS one      
    two      
    more      
  ROOTS how many microtubular origins, terminations, and associations to be defined    
    how many fibrous - not striated      
    how many striated      
           
BASAL BODIES NUMBER one - flagellated      
    two, with only one flagellated      
    two, with both flagellated      
    three      
    four      
    more      
 

STRUCTURE

triplets      
    not triplets      
    basal body shelves      
    basal body inclusions
   
  LENGTH about half a micron      
    significantly less than half a micron (short)      
    significantly more than half a micron (long)      
  TRANSITIONAL REGION transitional plate      
    transitional helix      
    transitional collar      
    central pair of axoneme end in a ball      
    Arms extend from the transitional region to the cell membrane      
NUCLEI envelope        
  mitosis - spindle location        
    completely inside the nucleus      
    completely outside the nucleus      
    penetrates through a perforated nuclear envelope      
    microtubules located both inside and outside the nucleus      
  mitosis - envelope behaviour persists intact      
    develops pores      
    breaks down completely      
  mitosis - spindle nucleating structure (MTOC) flagellar bases      
    centriole not attached to flagellum      
    amorphous mass      
    lamellate mass      
  mitosis - relationship of pole to pole microtubules vs pole to chromosome microtubules intermixed      
    segregrated      
           
  associations (microtubular roots)      
           
  nuclear dimorphism occurs   ciliates and foraminifera  
    does not occur      
           
  chromosome condensation conventional      
    helicoidal   dinoflagellates  
           
  Meiosis        
           
           
MITOCHONDRIA number one
many
inclusions none
kinetoplast
crystalline arrays
cristae flat without pedicel or discoid
discoid and with pedicel
ribbon-like
bleb like
tubular
tubular and branched (ramicristate)
associations with other organelles rootlets
PLASTIDS NUMBER one      
    two      
    many      
  Number of bounding membranes two      
    three      
    four      
  Thylakoids per lamella 1      
    several      
    many      
  Inclusions none      
    stigma      
DICTYOSOME (Golgi Apparatus) number one      
    more than one      
  Number of sacs one      
    few      
    many      
  Associations nuclear envelope      
    silicon deposition vesicle      
    flagellar rootlets (specify)      
  products to be specified      
SENSORY stigma inside plastid      
    outside plastid      
  eyes        
  gravity organelles        
EXTRUSOMES List to be added from hausmann reviews, to include trichocysts        
  mucocysts        
  kinetocysts        
  etc        
           
SURFACE CYTOSKELETON (organic and inside cell)

Alveolar sacs - that is they abut

  surface structure vocabulary dinoflagellates, ciliates  
  Sacs with organic content     armoured dinoflagellates  
  sacs with inorganic content     Coleps  
  other sacs - form a less complete layer     Colponema  
  fibrous layer     cryptophytes / ciliates  
  microtubular ribbons perpedincular to cell surface     opalines  
  interlocking ribbons     euglenids  
SURFACE - EXTERNAL inorganic material - calacarous   surface structure vocabulary    
  Inorganic material siliceous        
  plates        
  spines        
  inorganic material test / wall        
  inorganic material scales        
           
  accreted material        
           
INTERNAL INORGANIC SKELETON siliceous        
  strontium        
  calcareous        
INTERNAL MICROTUBULAR SKELETON microtubular spiral axonemes    
  • actinophryid
  
  microtubular hexagonal open axonemes    

not

  • centrohelid
  • gymosphaerid
  • acantharea
  • polycystinea
  • phaeodarea
  • dimorphids
  • ciliophryids
  • desmothoracids
  • sticholonche
  
  microtubular hexagonal filled axonemes        
  microtubular square packed axonemes        
MICROTUBULE NUCLEATING STRUCTURES Basal body (kinetosome)        
  centriole (no flagellum attached)        
  lamellate bodies        
  amorphous bodies        
           
CELL MEMBRANE amorphous coat        
  structured coat        
  scales        
  parasomal sacs        
INGESTION APPARATUS          
           
ADHESIVE STRUCTURES          
           
CONTRACTILE STRUCTURES          
           
OTHER MEMBRANOUS ORGANELLES CONTRACTILE VACUOLES AND SPONGIOME        
  CILISACS        
  FOOD VACUOLES        
  SILICON DEPOSITION VESICLES        
  RHOPTRiES AND MICRONEMES        
           

 
 

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