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Research reveals even single-cell organisms exhibit habituation, a simple form of learning

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The capacity to learn and adapt is central to evolution and, indeed, survival.

Advanced genetic techniques and microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate and methanogen symbiosis

A recent study has uncovered critical details about the association between anaerobic ciliates and methanogenic archaea, a relationship that has fascinated scientists for over decades. Researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, and University of Rhode Island have used advanced genetic techniques and microscopy to study this relationship in 32 species of free-living anaerobic ciliates, primarily from the order Metopida.

Single-celled eukaryote employs unconventional cytoskeletal components for dynamic shape-shifting

Recently, a research group led by Prof. Miao Wei from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered that Lacrymaria cells utilize unconventional and novel components of the cytoskeleton to achieve their remarkable dynamic shape-shifting ability. This study is published in Current Biology.

Reductitherus cryptostomus n. gen., n. sp. (Ciliophora: Armophorea: Clevelandellida), a remarkable new nyctotherid from an Australian cockroach, Parapanesthia gigantea (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae)

Ciliates of the family Nyctotheridae (Armophorea: Clevelandellida) are frequent intestinal symbionts of various invertebrates and some poikilotherm ve…