0 one of the very small parts like hairs on the surface of a cell that move regularly and keep the surrounding liquid moving around it or help an organism with only one cell to move --
The cilia are used to latch the trap shut.
Patients have reduced or absent cilia motility, and a wide range of abnormalities in the ultrastructure of the cilia are associated with this phenotype.
The primary cilium might also be involved in chemosensation.
An approach to digital image analysis of bending shapes of eukaryotic flagella and cilia.
The mature embryo is a true hexacanth but does not possess swimming appendages like cilia.
Occasionally, a cilium could be seen extended from the central stoma.
As metacercariae mature, these papillae become shorter with a thickening of the tegument but still retaining an opening to the cilium within.
A novel myosin-like protein (myocilin) expressed in the connecting cilium of the photoreceptor : molecular cloning, tissue expression and chromosomal mapping.
