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Category:GO:0097727 ! blepharoplast
name: blepharoplast
namespace: cellular_component
def: "An intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle found in multi-ciliated sperm cells of some primitive land plants, and consisting of many radially arranged ninefold symmetric cylinders. The blepharoplast is involved in de novo formation of multiple centrioles; it enlarges and then disintegrates into many procentrioles, which elongate and ultimately nucleate cilia on the surface of the sperm cell." [GOC:cilia, GOC:tb, PMID:22691130, PMID:25047614]
comment: The blepharoplast should not be confused with a basal body; rather, it acts as the precursor assembly zone for multiple basal bodies.
is_a: GO:0043232 ! intracellular membraneless organelle
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<GOterm>GO:0097727</GOterm>
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