Tetrahymena thermophila is both a cell and an organism, which combines great intracellular
complexity with a remarkable accessibility to investigation using many different approaches …

Unicellular eukaryotes have been appreciated as model systems for the analysis of crucial
questions in cell and molecular biology. This includes Dictyostelium (chemotaxis, amoeboid …

This special issue of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (JEM) summarizes
achievements obtained by generations of researchers with ciliates in widely different …

Ciliates assemble numerous microtubular structures into complex cortical patterns. During
ciliate division, the pattern is duplicated by intracellular segmentation that produces a …

Due to their well-defined pathways of vesicle trafficking and manyfold mutants ciliates have
served as good model systems. Further studies required the development of databases, now …

The aim of the present article is to analyse the evolutionary links between protozoa and
neuronal and neurosecretory cells. To this effect we employ functional and topological data …

The contractile vacuole complex (CVC) of some protists serves for the osmotic equilibration
of water and ions, notably Ca 2+, by chemiosmotic exploitation of a H+ gradient generated …

In ciliates, unicellular representatives of the bikont branch of evolution, inter‐and
intracellular signalling pathways have been analysed mainly in Paramecium tetraurelia …

A Paramecium cell has as many types of membrane interactions as mammalian cells, as
established with monoclonal antibodies by R. Allen and A. Fok. Since then, we have …

Tetrahymena thermophila, a member of the Ciliates, represents a class of organisms
distantly related from commonly used model organisms in cell biology, and thus offers an …