Sketches of red blood cells taken from various vertebrate species

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Organism vertebrates
Reference Goehring NW, Hyman AA. Organelle growth control through limiting pools of cytoplasmic components. Curr Biol. 2012 May 8 22(9):R330-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.046. p.R331 figure 1PubMed ID22575475
Primary Source Gulliver, G. (1875). On the size and shape of red corpuscles of the blood of vertebrates. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1875, 474–495.
Comments "A general correlation was known to exist between the size of a cell and the size of its internal components, including the nucleus, the spindle, and centrosomes." See scale at bottom of figure 1A
Entered by Uri M
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