Adult centrioles are said to lie at right angles and contain a cartwheel structure at the proximal end, but a critical review of the literature reveals no support for either of these claims. The evidence suggests that cartwheels are a feature of procentrioles not adult centrioles, and the orientation between adult centrioles has never been investigated with a convincing degree of accuracy - in the absence of firm data this should remain an open question.
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P. L. Alvey (1986) studied this question.
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