Paramecium

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Despite consisting only of one single cell, the microorganism Paramecium has an amazingly complex life cycle. It has a period of infancy and of old age, it learns, defends itself from prey, has sex, responds to different sensory cues - all things we can relate... click to read more

Sarah Allen | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Mariusz Nowacki | Professor at Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Paramecium

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copying mechanism

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published on Oct 19, 2018

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