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ciliary pocket collar
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A constriction site at the junction of the plasma, flagellar and flagellar pocket membranes where the flagellum emerges from the cell body. Observed in some unicellular eukaryotic species such as Chlamydomonas, Giardia and Trypanosoma. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18462016 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19806154 ]
Term info
Label
ciliary pocket collar
Synonyms
- cilium pocket collar
- flagellar pocket collar
- flagellum pocket collar
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Note that a 'flagellar collar' is described in Choanoflagellates, but this is different from the ciliary pocket collar found e.g. in Giardia; in Choanoflagellates, a single apical flagellum is surrounded by a collar of 30-40 microvilli.
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creation date
2015-11-17T14:43:55Z
has obo namespace
cellular_component
has related synonym
flagellar pore, flagellar collar, FPC
id
GO:1990900