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9+2 motile cilium

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A motile cilium where the axoneme has a ring of nine outer microtubule doublets plus two central microtubules (and is therefore called a 9+2 axoneme). [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118931 ]

Term info

Label

9+2 motile cilium

Synonyms
  • motile 9+2 cilium
comment

This type of cilia may be present in solitary (so-called flagella, e.g. in sperm) or in multiple copies (so-called conventional motile cilia, e.g. in tracheal epithelium, ependyma or oviduct epithelium).

created by

paola

creation date

2016-09-27T15:26:34Z

has narrow synonym

conventional motile cilium, sperm flagellum

has obo namespace

cellular_component

id

GO:0097729