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 …

Single cells are capable of remarkably sophisticated, sometimes animal-like, behaviors.
New work demonstrates bioelectric control of motility through the differential regulation of …

In this chapter we provide some tools to study the ciliary proteins that make it possible for
Paramecium cells to swim by beating their cilia. These proteins include many ion channels …

The awareness of ciliate importance in freshwater has changed dramatically in the last
decades, reflecting methodological attempts. We analysed two decades (1994-2018) of data …

A significant portion of many genomes comprises sequences such as transposable
elements, which carry the potential risk of disrupting genes when they are expressed. While …