Movie 2.

A fluorescent microbead motion bound near the tip of the cilium in the live T. thermophila cell trapped by a micropipette. The movement of a fluorescent microbead bound near the ciliary tip was imaged. The movie shows the field of views split by a prism using the tPOT system, for ∼0.27 seconds (2.28 ms intervals, ×1/20 speed). Scale bar: 10 μm.

Three-dimensional beating pattern of the ciliary tip in the live ciliate Tetrahymena

Akisato Marumo, Hiroto Ishii, Shin Yamaguchi, Rieko Sumiyoshi, Kyohei Matsuda, Masahiko Yamagishi, and Junichiro Yajima

J Cell Sci 2025. 138:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jcs.264027