Ciliate protozoa possess the remarkable ability to reproduce through both asexual and sexual means. Their distinctive sexual process involves conjugation and autogamy, and they wield a secret weapon: ...

Conjugation (or mating) of ciliates is a unique phenomenon among living beings. They have sex not for reproduction or pleasure — they seek to increase genetic variation. Scientists from St Petersburg ...

Ciliates are complex unicellular eukaryotes that use different types of nuclei within the same cytoplasm to separate germline and somatic functions 1. The diploid micronuclei (MICs) undergo meiosis to ...

Paramecium are ciliates, members of a phylum of protists that possess both germline and somatic genomes housed in functionally distinct nuclei — the micronucleus and macronucleus, respectively. During ...

Considered as an obsolete theory for many years, the transmission of acquired traits has returned to the forefront of debate thanks to the development of epigenetic research. In this context, a team ...

A–C Morphology of Paramecium jenningsi (A, B Ventral views in vivo; C A mating pair.). D, a–u The time-course analysis (D) and the fluorescently stained images (a–u) of the whole process of nuclear ...