Paramecium (/ˌpærəˈmiːʃ(i)əm/PARR-ə-MEE-sh(ee-)əm, /-siəm/-see-əm, plural "paramecia" only when used as a vernacular name)[2] is a genus of eukaryotic, unicellular ciliates, commonly studied as a model organism of the ciliate group. Paramecium are widespread in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments and are often abundant in stagnant basins and ponds. Because some species are readily cultivated and easily induced to conjugate and divide, they have been widely used in classrooms and laboratories to study biological processes. The usefulness of Paramecium as a model organism has caused one ciliate researcher to characterize it as the "white rat" of the phylum Ciliophora.[3]
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^"paramecium". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.
^Lynn, Denis (2008). The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 30. ISBN 9781402082399.
Paramecium (/ˌpærəˈmiːʃ(i)əm/ PARR-ə-MEE-sh(ee-)əm, /-siəm/ -see-əm, plural "paramecia" only when used as a vernacular name) is a genus of eukaryotic...
Paramecium aurelia are unicellular organisms belonging to the genus Paramecium of the phylum Ciliophora. They are covered in cilia which help in movement...
Paramecium caudatum is a species of unicellular protist in the phylum Ciliophora. They can reach 0.33 mm in length and are covered with minute hair-like...
Paramecium bursaria is a species of ciliate found in marine and brackish waters. It has a mutualistic endosymbiotic relationship with green algae called...
Paramecium sonneborni is a species of unicellular organisms belonging to the genus Paramecium of the phylum Ciliophora. It was first isolated in Texas...
environments. Paramecium aurelia is the most commonly studied protozoan for autogamy. Similar to other unicellular organisms, Paramecium aurelia typically...
Paramecium biaurelia is a species of unicellular ciliates under the genus Paramecium, and one of the cryptic species of Paramecium aurelia. It is a free-living...
Paramecium woodruffi is a species of unicellular organisms belonging to the genus Paramecium of the phylum Ciliophora. It was first isolated in 1928 by...
ParameciumDB is a database for the genome and biology of the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia. Paramecium Arnaiz, Olivier; Cain Scott; Cohen Jean; Sperling...
mechanism is unknown. After a certain number of generations (200–350, in Paramecium aurelia, and as many as 1,500 in Tetrahymena) the cell shows signs of...
amplification in Paramecium tetraurelia is an example of gene amplification that has occurred in the unicellular organism Paramecium tetraurelia. Gene...
by heterotrophy. Traditional textbook examples of protozoa are Amoeba, Paramecium, Euglena and Trypanosoma. The word "protozoa" (singular protozoon) was...
cytoplasmic symbionts, occurring in some strains of the ciliate Paramecium. Paramecium strains possessing the particles are known as "killer paramecia"...
longer. The best-understood contractile vacuoles belong to the protists Paramecium, Amoeba, Dictyostelium and Trypanosoma, and to a lesser extent the green...
different ways of preventing cytolysis from occurring. For example, the paramecium uses a contractile vacuole, which rapidly pumps out excessive water to...
cylindrical cells, bacteria, on left) and a single-celled eukaryote, Paramecium Coast redwood Blue whale The eukaryotes are a diverse lineage, consisting...
visible bodies after artificial stimulation. Filamentous trichocysts in Paramecium and other ciliates are discharged as filaments composed of a cross-striated...
predatory ciliate, Didinium, where it is often depicted devouring a hapless Paramecium. The suctorian ciliates were originally thought to have fed exclusively...
movement of paramecium. This helps the cell avoid obstacles and causes other objects to bounce off of the cell's outer membrane. The paramecium does this...
Paramecia (an extinct red alga) is also the plural of the name of the genus Paramecium (which is in the SAR supergroup), which can also lead to confusion. A...
group of protists that utilize cilia for locomotion. Examples include Paramecium, Stentors, and Vorticella. Ciliates are widely abundant in almost all...
American biologist. His life's study was ciliated protozoa of the group Paramecium. Sonneborn attended the Baltimore City Public Schools and graduated from...
their genes collaborating to manipulate the host Unicellular organism Paramecium One cell, with organelles e.g. cilia for specific functions Yes Inter-cellular...
amoeba and paramecium. Amoeba Amoeba uses pseudopodia to capture food for nutrition in a process called phagocytosis. ParameciumParamecium uses cilia...
protozoan Didinium nasutum is added to a culture containing its prey, Paramecium caudatum, the latter is often driven to extinction. The Lotka–Volterra...
experiments on the single-celled green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, using paramecium as a predator. They found that in the presence of this predator, C. reinhardtii...
which lacks plastids entirely, and Cryptomonas paramecium (previously called Chilomonas paramecium), which has leucoplasts, cryptomonads have one or...
sequence of the ciliate Paramecium caudatum reveals a shift in nucleotide composition and codon usage within the genus Paramecium". BMC Genomics. 12: 272...
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