Paramecium bursaria
Isolation and characterization of a virus (CvV BW1) that infects symbiotic algae of Paramecium bursaria in Lake Biwa, Japan
... mecium bursaria was described (Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus [PBCV]) ...P. bursaria symbionts, whereas PBCVs do not infect hydra symbionts; PBCVs collected in the United States infect ...
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Microarray Analysis of Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus 1 Transcription
... Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 (PBCV-1), a member of the family Phycodnaviridae, is a large double- stranded DNA, plaque-forming virus that infects the unicellular green alga Chlorella ...
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Photobiont Flexibility in Paramecium bursaria: Double and Triple Photobiont Co Habitation
... ciliate Paramecium bursaria is one of the most studied protists due to its observable ...P. bursaria can absorb again and fix the algae as new photobionts ...P. bursaria, there are unusual ...
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Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus 1 Proteome Reveals Novel Architectural and Regulatory Features of a Giant Virus
... chlorovirus Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 (PBCV-1) genome was resequenced and annotated to correct errors in the original 15-year-old sequence; 40 codons was considered the minimum protein size of ...
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RNA Triphosphatase Component of the mRNA Capping Apparatus of Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus 1
... Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 (PBCV-1) elicits a lytic infection of its unicellular green alga host. The 330-kbp viral genome has been sequenced, yet little is known about how viral mRNAs are ...
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The effects of altering extracellular potassium ion concentration on the membrane potential and circadian clock of Paramecium bursaria
... Paramecium bursaria with intracellular symbiotic Chlorella were used for all experiments. A variety of cultured strains (named Mit-B, Kz-1 and T316) derived from different isolates from nature were used in ...
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A HETEROCARYON IN PARAMECIUM BURSARIA
... In some cases it is necessary to isolate, and then to culture as separate lines, each of the four caryonides descended from a single pair of conjugating cells; a caryon[r] ...
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Cercadian Change of Photosensiuvity in Paramecium Bursaria
... Swimming velocity Under the illumination cycle, the cells showed active swimming during the first half of the light period, but during the second half the cells almost stopped swimming a[r] ...
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Behavioural Responses to Light in Paramecium Bursaria in Relation to its Symbiotic Green Alga Chlorella
... Spectral sensitivity curves for the light-induced changes in the photophobic responses To find the most effective light for suppressing the step-up response and enhancing the step-down r[r] ...
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MATING IN POPULATIONS OF PARAMECIUM BURSARIA: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL
... Senescence and the suruiual of unmated cells: Since the frequency of older un- mated cells is reduced at each generation by the parameter k (when k < 1 ) , while the f[r] ...
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Ca2+ Dependent Photoreceptor Potential in Paramecium Bursaria
... A positive shift of the membrane potential, produced by current injection, decreased the amplitude of the potential change induced by the light stimulus, and a negative shift increased t[r] ...
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Photoreceptor Potential Causing Phototaxis of Paramecium Bursaria
... Intracellular recordings from both chlorella-containing and chlorella-free cells showed that a step-increase in the light intensity induced a steady depolarization of membrane potential,[r] ...
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GENETICS OF PARAMECIUM BURSARIA. IV. A FOURTH VARIETY FROM RUSSIA. LETHAL CROSSES WITH AN AMERICAN VARIETY
... To discover whether or not any of the Russian clones belong to a particular United States variety, individuals of each Russian clone must be mingled sepa- rately with a t least [r] ...
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Random Sequencing of Paramecium Somatic DNA
... lyl cyclases, centrins, tubulins) or unique genes (e.g., calmod- ulin, ND7), the project has significantly multiplied the known Paramecium genes. This is particularly striking for genes in- volved in metabolism ...
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A Ca Induced Na Current in Paramecium
... Although the observable slow inward current appears to be smaller and is often obscured by the outward current, the slow inward tail current after the repolarization is clearly seen in t[r] ...
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RESTORATION OF NUCLEO-MITOCHONDRIAL COMPATIBILITY IN PARAMECIUM
... These results indicate that MCzERrol mitochondria, when introduced into cl,/ cl,M+ES cells at 2-3 generations, have a very strong selective advantage with respect to the mi[r] ...
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ABSENCE OF DETECTABLE MITOCHONDRIAL RECOMBINATION IN PARAMECIUM
... Tetrahymena pyriformis initochondrial DNA. Strain differences and occurrence of in- verted repetitions. ARNOLD, 1974 Evidence of a large, ramified mitochondrium in Chla[r] ...
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MUTANTS OF PARAMECIUM DEFECTIVE IN CHEMOKINESIS TO FOLATE
... These double mutants were crossed to other fol- mutants with normal body morphology and scored in the F1 for body and behavior for complementation of the two fol- [r] ...
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Relaxation and activation of graviresponses in Paramecium caudatum
... Gravikinetic activation under 1 g conditions is a slow process. Swimming rates were near steady-state approximately 30 s after completion of turning of the chamber (Fig. 5), but Fig. 8B suggests that it took 1 min for ...
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Modeling Paramecium swimming in a capillary tube
... by Paramecium are designed to swim in a capillary tube for gaining access to internal organs with minimal ...of Paramecium swimming in a capillary tube is vital for optimizing the design of such ...
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