THE suggestion made by Gunn and Walshe 1, that the avoiding reaction of Paramecium fits into the scheme of klino–kinesis, receives some support from the behaviour of the animal in a uniform high ...

what does that imply about the resulting collection of cells? For example, in Figure 1 we see a population of Paramecium over a six day period. How do population ecologists quantitatively describe ...

By manipulating the number of positive ions, 'inside and outside its membrane, 'the paramecium creates a potential difference of 40 millivolts. When it bumps into something, its cell membrane ...

Diversity and phylogeny of bacteria endosymbionts in protists, namely Holosporaceae and related families of alpha-proteobacteria. Symbiosis, interaction of bacterial symbionts and its host protists, ...