Rare Freshwater Ciliate Paramecium chlorelligerum Kahl, 1935 and Its Macronuclear Symbiotic Bacterium "Candidatus Holospora parva". [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Ciliated protists often form symbioses with many diverse microorganisms. In particular, symbiotic associations between ciliates and green algae, as well as between ciliates and intracellular bacteria, are rather wide-spread in nature.
Olivia Lanzoni +5 more
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The genome and comparative transcriptome of the euryhaline model ciliate Paramecium duboscqui reveal adaptations to environmental salinity. [PDF]
BMC BiolBackground As a potential model organism for studies of environmental and cell biology, Paramecium duboscqui is a special euryhaline species of Paramecium that can be found in fresh, brackish, or marine water in natural salinity ranges between 0‰ and 33‰.
Fu Y +5 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Holospora spp. and “Candidatus Gortzia infectiva”, known as Holospora-like bacteria (HLB), are commonly found as nuclear endosymbionts of ciliates, especially the Paramecium genus.
Valentina Serra +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2019 H3K9me3 and H3K27me3 chromatin silencing marks are usually deposited by different SET-domain proteins. Here the authors show that the Enhancer-of-zeste-like protein Ezl1, from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium tetraurelia, catalyzes methylation of ...
Andrea Frapporti +12 more
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Six domesticated PiggyBac transposases together carry out programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium
eLife, 2018 The domestication of transposable elements has repeatedly occurred during evolution and domesticated transposases have often been implicated in programmed genome rearrangements, as remarkably illustrated in ciliates.
Julien Bischerour +11 more
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Mutualism on the edge: Understanding the Paramecium-Chlorella symbiosis. [PDF]
PLoS BiolExploring the mechanisms that underpin symbiosis requires an understanding of how these complex interactions are maintained in diverse model systems.
Jenkins BH.
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Eco-phenotypic feedback loops differ in multistressor environments. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Natural communities are exposed to multiple environmental stressors, which simultaneously impact the population and trait dynamics of the species embedded within these communities. Given that certain traits, such as body size, are known to rapidly respond to environmental change, and given that they can strongly influence the density of ...
Govaert L, Klauschies T.
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A Reassessment of Phylogenetic Relationships in Class Oligohymenophorea (Protista, Ciliophora) Based on Updated Multigene Data. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe report 97 new sequences, including SSU‐rRNA, ITS1‐5.8S‐ITS2 rRNA, LSU‐rRNA, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase c subunit I, and mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of 30 oligohymenophorean populations. A comprehensive analysis of class Oligohymenophorea is conducted, encompassing 250 populations.
Li B +7 more
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Dynamics of Gene Loss following Ancient Whole-Genome Duplication in the Cryptic Paramecium Complex
Molecular biology and evolution, 2023 Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) have shaped the gene repertoire of many eukaryotic lineages. The redundancy created by WGDs typically results in a phase of massive gene loss.
Jean-François Gout +15 more
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Integrative Neuroscience of Paramecium, a “Swimming Neuron”
eNeuro, 2021 Paramecium is a unicellular organism that swims in fresh water by beating thousands of cilia. When it is stimulated (mechanically, chemically, optically, thermally…), it often swims backward then turns and swims forward again. This “avoiding reaction” is
R. Brette
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