The emergence of sexual reproduction turned out to be the most important evolutionary innovation that facilitated the evolution of eukaryotes. Paramecium is a well-known genus of ciliated protists ...

A microbiome may be comprised of bacteria, archaea, and unicellular eukaryotes -protists and fungi. ... Paramecium and Stentor. The results of the study on Paramecium were published last winter.

(E) Multiple mitochondria in the ciliate Paramecium bursaria (scale bar in D and E: 1 micrometer). This page has been archived and is no longer updated Transmission electron micrographs of ...

Seen through a microscope, the hairy, slipper-shaped aquatic microbe Paramecium bursaria often looks as if it is bursting at the seams with tiny green marbles.Yet the verdant spheres are a different ...

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 ...