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"phantom" larva of Chaoborus crystallinus (DeGeer, 1776) (Diptera, Nematocera).

Canadian Journal of Zoology 73: 15-26.

Melzer RR, Diersch R, Nicastro D, Smola U (1997) Compound eye evolution: Highly

conserved retinula and cone cell patterns indicate a common origin of the insect and

crustacean ommatidium. Naturwissenschaften 84:542-544.

Nicastro D, Melzer RR, Hruschka H, Smola U (1998) Evolution of small sense organs:

sensilla on the larval antennae traced back to the origin of the Diptera.

Naturwissenschaften 85: 501-505.

Melzer RR, Sprenger J, Nicastro D, Smola U (1999) Larva-adult relationships in an

ancestral dipteran: a re-examination of sensillar pathways across the antenna and leg

anlagen of Chaoborus crystallinus (DeGeer, 1776) (Diptera, Chaoboridae). Development,

Genes and Evolution 209: 103-112.

Nicastro D, Frangakis AS, Typke D, Baumeister W (2000) Cryo-electron tomography of

Neurospora mitochondria: three-dimensional organization and ultrastructure of whole ice-

embedded organelles. Journal of Structural Biology 129: 48-56.

Melzer RR, Nicastro D, Zimmermann T (2002) Functional morphology of sense organs and

sensory receptors in the Diptera. Mitt. Dtsch. Ges. Allg. Angew. Ent. 13:299-302.

Frangakis AS, Boehm J, Forster F, Nickell S, Nicastro D, Typke D, Hegerl R, Baumeister

W (2002) Identification of macromolecular complexes in cryoelectron tomograms of

phantom cells. PNAS USA 99:14153-14158.

Medalia O, Weber I, Frangakis AS, Nicastro D, Gerisch G, Baumeister W (2002)

Macromolecular architecture in eukaryotic cells visualized by cryoelectron tomography.

Science 298:1209-1213.

McIntosh R, Nicastro D, Mastronarde D (2005) New views of cells in 3D: an introduction to

electron tomography. Trends Cell Biol. 15:43-51.

Nicastro D, McIntosh J.R., Baumeister W (2005) 3D structure of eukaryotic flagella in a

quiescent state revealed by cryo-electron tomography. PNAS USA 102:15889-94.

Nicastro D, Schwartz C, Pierson J, Gaudette R, Porter M, McIntosh JR (2006) The

molecular architecture of axonemes revealed by cryoelectron tomography. Science

313:944-8.

Hoenger A and Nicastro D (2007) Electron Microscopy of Microtubule-Based Cytoskeletal

Machinery. Chapter 17 in: Cellular Electron Microscopy; edited by J.R McIntosh; a series

of: Methods in Cell Biology, Vol: 79: 437-62.

Schwartz CL, Sarbash VI, Ataullakhanov FI, McIntosh JR, Nicastro D (2007) Cryo-

fluorescence microscopy facilitates correlations between light and cryo-electron

microscopy and reduces the rate of photobleaching. J. Microsc. 227: 98-109.

Wirschell M, Nicastro D, Porter ME and Sale WS (2007) Structural basis for regulation of

flagellar motility: organization of the “dynein regulatory complex”, inter-dynein linkers and a

network of axonemal kinases and phosphatases. In The Chlamydomonas Sourcebook,

ed., G.B. Witman; (in press)

Rouiller I, Xu XP, Amann KJ, Egile C, Nickell S, Nicastro D, Li R, Pollard TD, Volkmann N,

Hanein D. (2008) The structural basis of actin filament branching by the Arp2/3 complex.

J Cell Biol. 180: 887-95.