Ultrastructure of the dinoflagellate Polykrikos. II. The nucleus and its connections to the flagellar apparatus.
Electron microscopy of the colonial dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidi revealed a nuclear cortex formed of two electron-dense cortical layers directly beneath the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pores were confined to vesicular outpocketings of the nuclear envelope over circular discontinuities in the cortical layers. A conspicuous fibrous ribbon extended from the nucleus to the flagellar apparatus of each zooid. The ribbons resembled in their structure and position the attractophores of termite flagellates. Each flagellar apparatus consisted of two flagella, two elongate axial kinetosomes, an oblique kinetosome, and two roots of markedly different periodicities.
D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004141:Dinoflagellida / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005407:Flagella / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000648:ultrastructure