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WE should like to sound a warning that might save other workers in this new and difficult field from some of the troubles that have beset our own investigations. Our aim has been to obtain X-ray diffraction diagrams of oriented preparations of the flagella of algae, sperm, etc., of a standard comparable with those already obtained with bacterial flagella1, and it was in fact believed that an encouraging advance towards this end had been achieved a few years ago2. Now, however, it has become apparent that it is much easier to discover diagrams of metabolic by-products and various other artefacts than of the flagella substance proper.
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ASTBURY, W., PAUTARD, F. Extraneous X-Ray Diffraction Patterns from Algal Flagella. Nature 178, 372 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178372b0
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