SUBJECT INDEX 



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function, 2, 3, 7-10, 77, 171, 201 

 functions of the parts, 145-51 

 mechanism of beat, 151-63 

 optium length, 172 

 shape and size, 13, 167, 171-3 

 significance of the 9-plus-2 



pattern, 149-50 



structure, see Structure of cilia 



Cine camera in study of ciliary 



activity, 79, 182 

 Cirri, 



root structure, 28, 61-2, V 

 shaft structure, 30-1 

 Citrate ions, 98 

 Cocaine, 117-8 



Coccolithophore haptonemata, 73—4 

 Coelomic circulation by cilia, refer- 

 ences, 201 

 Collagen fibres, 28 

 Colpidiuni, 



kinety structure, 63 

 unstriated root fibrils, 64 

 Compound cilia, 

 function, 77, 171-3 

 structure, 13, 30-2, IV, V 

 Conduction, 



of contraction in ciliary shaft, 



148, 159-63 

 of impulses by root systems, 



150-1, 198-9 

 of metachronal waves, 180-90 



Contraction, 



of bacteriophage tail sheath, 

 152-3 



of cilia, 



bending couple, 146-7 

 excitation of, 163 

 form of, 138-45 

 mechanism, 151-9 

 parts responsible, 145-51 

 propagation of, 148, 159-63 

 tension exerted, 154, 164-6 

 w^ork done, 164-6 



of flagella, form of, 127-38 



of muscle, 152-3, 161 



of sperm tail, form of, 127-34 



see other topics under Contrac- 

 tion of cilia 

 Control of ciliary activity, 120-4, 



170, 197-8 

 Coordination, see Activation, Con- 

 trol of ciliary activity. 

 Inhibition, Metachronism 

 and Reversal. 

 Costa of Tritrichomonas, 71 

 Cothurnia, eflfect of oxygen lack, 103 

 Crystallolithus, haptonema, 73-4 

 Cyanide and activity of cilia and 



sperm, 102, 107 

 Cycas spermatozoid cilia, 

 basal body 



and fibrous band, 70 

 dimensions, 53, 55 

 structure, 55-6 

 dimensions of, 14, 16 

 Cyclidium, ciliary movement by 

 activation, 121 



Desmodexy, rule of, 62 

 Dexioplectic metachronism, 174, 



175, 182-90 

 Diacetylmonoxime, 120 

 Diaplectic metachronism, 174, 177, 

 179, 191-2 {see also Dexi- 

 oplectic and Laeoplectic) 

 rows of cilia, 171 

 Dictyota flagella, 

 development, 52 

 spines, 39 

 Didinium, reversal of metachronal 



waves, 178 

 Djgitalin and Digitamine, 117, 119 



Digitoxin, 117, 118-9 

 Diisopropylfluorophosphate, 114 



Dimensions 



of basal bodies, 26, 53 



of centrioles, 49, 53 



of cilia and flagella, 13, 14 



of component parts of cilia and 



flagella, 16 

 of haptonemata, 74 



