When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

Paramecia cells are elongated in appearance, and based on this shape were divided into two groups: aurelia and bursaria, according to the "The Biology of Paramecium, 2nd Ed." (Springer ...

Dr Yamashita then went on to lead another study demonstrating the applicability of MP in DET for another single-cell organism species with a vastly different structure, Paramecium. In their most ...

Few organisms rank lower in life than the gelatinous, pond-dwelling paramecium. It consists of one cell, two orifices, and thousands of hairy feet that project from its surface like beard stubble. Yet ...

Paramecium are ciliates ... which are reciprocally exchanged between the partner cells. Fusion of these gametic nuclei generates two genetically identical zygotic genomes within the still ...