By standing up neither for Louisiana nor for the powers of the House, Johnson shows more likeness to a paramecium.

Modern methods have allowed scientists to determine that these organisms can cause fungal infections in humans, which confirms the hypothesis that ciliates can be carriers of pathogens of certain ...

From the man on top, Conrad (Pierce Brosnan), to his pagan-like wife, Maeve (Helen Mirren), and their naive grandson Eddie (Anson Boon), who stabs anyone who gives him a dirty look, it doesn’t help ...

(1997), The planktonic marine flagellates. In Tomas, C.R. (ed.), Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates. (Academic Press, San Diego). pp. 591–730. agglutinated: of ciliates, lorica wall ...

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The giant ciliate Stentor coeruleus is a classical model system for studying regeneration and morphogenesis in a single cell. The anterior of the cell is marked by an array of cilia, known as the oral ...

Microcephaly or reduced head circumference results from a multitude of abnormal developmental processes affecting brain growth and/or leading to brain atrophy. Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly ...

Psychologist Beatrice Gelber conducted experiments in the 1950s and 1960s to test for associative learning in Paramecium aurelia. In her main trials (top row, image below), she reported that, while ...