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Mouse Photoreceptor Sensory Cilium

Caption: Isolated mouse photoreceptor sensory cilium. Red is the rootlet, which helps connect the cilium to the cell. Green is the axoneme, the central part of the cilium. Scale bar 5 microns.

Credit: Qin Liu, M.D., Ph.D. and Eric A. Pierce, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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