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. 2011 Mar;3(3):a000638. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a000638

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

The tripartite organization of the nucleolus. Electron micrograph of a mouse fibroblast nucleolus. (f) fibrillar center, (d) dense fibrillar component, (g) granular component, (arrows) perinucleolar heterochromatin, (*) denotes the presence of dense fibrillar component material within the fibrillar center, which is occasionally observed. (Reprinted from Trends in Cell Biol 13: 517–525, Raška, I. © 2003, with permission from Elsevier.)