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An early, neglected description of the fibres (microtubules) in the eucaryotic flagellum

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An early paper demonstrating the existence of fibrils (microtubules) within the flagellum is summarised. The paper appears the first to have demonstrated the existence of flagellar microtubules using electron microscopy, and it has been neglected in the literature.

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Pickett-Heaps, J.D., Martin, A. An early, neglected description of the fibres (microtubules) in the eucaryotic flagellum. Protoplasma 176, 14–16 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01378934

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