This article is within the scope ofWikiProject Molecular Biology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage ofmolecular biology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can jointhe discussion and see a list of open tasks.Molecular BiologyWikipedia:WikiProject Molecular BiologyTemplate:WikiProject Molecular BiologyMolecular Biology
Text and/or other creative content fromKinetosome was copied or moved intoBasal body with [[1] this edit]. The former page'shistory now serves toprovide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.
The basal body and the axoneme are entirely functionally and even structurally distinct. The basal body tmeplates the axoneme, but that does not mean they are the same thing. Not at all!
So far as mergers are concerned: centriole and centrosome could be merged, but Basal body should be kept separate as should spindle pole body. MTOC is a collective noun for the above, but that doesn't mean that they should all be merged.—Precedingunsigned comment added by131.111.45.179 (talk •contribs) 13:51, 21 June 2007
The following discussion is closed.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Support the merge. Kienetosome has only a little information, and is not frequently edited. It would make, perhaps, a good section in the basal body article.N2e (talk)18:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Clarifying my recommendation: I'm okay with a merge of the articles. But as it stands, the basal body article is the stronger of the two articles today. Thus, it seems thatBasal body is the article to keep when the merge is done. I do know that "basal body" is a common term in both the technical literature I've read in putting together an article onciliopathies and it is also used in more accessible lay literature such asThe Importance of Being Cilia which is referenced in both theCiliopathy article as well as in theCilia article.N2e (talk)18:52, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support - FromFoundations of Parasitology, 8th edition page 47; "The axoneme arises from akinetosomes (basal body), which is ultrastructurally indistinguishable from centrioles of other eukaryotic cells . . ." The book treats the terms as interchangeable on a couple of other occasions as well. Also, I just looked up kinetosome with the dictionary on my computer, which reads; "noun, another term forbasal body." I'd merge them myself if I knew how.ManfromButtonwillow (talk)08:17, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
