The bundle of microtubules and associated proteins that forms the core of cilia (also called flagella) in eukaryotic cells and is responsible for their movements. [ GOC:cilia GOC:bf https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198547684 ]
Synonyms: flagellum axoneme flagellar axoneme ciliary axoneme cilium axoneme
Term information
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Note that cilia and eukaryotic flagella are deemed to be equivalent. In diplomonad species, such as Giardia, the axoneme may extend intracellularly up to 5um away from the plane of the plasma membrane.
Term relations
- cellular anatomical structure
- has part some microtubule
- part of some ciliary plasm
- part of some cytoskeleton
- proximal portion of axoneme
- distal portion of axoneme
- outer dynein arm docking complex
- satellite fibril
- axonemal microtubule
- axonemal dynein complex
- axonemal heterotrimeric kinesin-II complex
- axonemal nexin link
- radial spoke
- axonemal doublet microtubule
- axonemal basal plate
- axonemal central apparatus