Paramecium bursaria, which forms a natural symbiosis with the alga Chlorella vulgaris in nature, serves as the host cell. The work is published in the journal Lab on a Chip.

Paramecium is a well-known genus of ciliated protists with a complex system of 'sexes', or mating types. Paramecium reproduces asexually, by binary fission, which is not related to the mating process.

THE suggestion made by Gunn and Walshe1, 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 ...

The paramecium is an amazing organism. It survives and thrives using just one basic principle: If things are getting better, keep swimming in that direction, and if not, change course.

The myth of the simple paramecium was shattered in 2006 when scientists sequenced its genome. They discovered almost 40,000 genes—about twice as many as in a human cell. They also found evidence of ...