This review provides background and perspective for the articles contributing to the Special
Issue of MDPI Micro-organisms on Paramecium as a Modern Model Organism. The six …

The growth of complexity is an unsolved and underappreciated problem. We consider
possible causes of this growth, hypotheses testing, molecular mechanisms, complexity …

I studied the evolution and cell biology of Paramecium tetraurelia—a model ciliate with over
40,000 distinct protein-coding genes resulting from as many as three ancient whole-genome …