Cell Component
kinetosome
ki·ne·to·some
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Cylindrical cytoplasmic bodies structurally resembling the centriole, located on the subsurface of flagellate protozoa and giving rise to the axoneme.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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(blepharoplast) An intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle found in multi-ciliated sperm cells of some primitive land plants, and consisting of many radially arranged ninefold symmetric cylinders. The blepharoplast is involved in de novo formation of multiple centrioles; it enlarges and then disintegrates into many procentrioles, which elongate and ultimately nucleate cilia on the surface of the sperm cell.Gene Ontology DictionaryGene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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