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YOTSUYANAGI1 has reported long, curved, cylindrical, occasionally branched, thread-like mitochondria in yeast cells by staining with tetrazolium. Although mitochondria are often clearly visible in living yeast cells, no other observer has ever reported long cylindrical cytoplasmic structures in Saccharomyces; we believe these thread-like structures are crystals of dye rather than mitochondria.
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Yotsuyanagi, J., Nature, 176, 1208 (1955).
Ephrussi, B., and Slonimski, P. P., Nature, 176, 1207 (1955).
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WILLIAMS, M., LINDEGREN, C. & YUASA, A. Cytoplasmic Structures in Yeasts. Nature 177, 1041 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771041a0
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