Figure 3. Slices from tomographic volumes containing multilayered plates.

• A, B
  Plates with several layers that are not closely appressed.
• C–E
  Large multilayer plates having the size of human metaphase chromatids [∼0.6 µm diameter (Daban, 2014)] (C); the inset schematically shows the perpendicular orientation of chromatin layers with respect to the chromatid axes proposed in the thin‐plate model (Gállego et al, 2009; Castro‐Hartmann et al, 2010). In other slices (D, E), the multilayer structures shown in (C) are more compact and the individual layers are not visible as separate elements.

Data information: Scale bars: 50 nm.