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Science 14 September 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4104, pp. 1066 - 1067
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4104.1066
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Kinetosomes in Insect Epidermal Cells and Their Orientation with Respect to Cell Symmetry and Intercellular Patterning

Joan M. Whitten 1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60201

Paired flagellar basal bodies or kitnetosomles are described for tarsal, pulvillar, wing, proboscis, ptilinum, and tracheal epithelial cells in the fly Sarcophaga bullata. Evidence suggests that in every diploid epidermal cell their orientation is specific with respect to (i) cell symmetry and cuticular patterning, and (ii) intercellular positioninig and polarity. Microtrichia may be homologous with the flagella of other organisms.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)