"Paramecium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of ciliate protozoa that is often large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Paramecia are commonly used in genetic, cytological, and other research.
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D010247
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.043.185.650.375.550.637
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Paramecium" by people in Profiles.
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The pegs on the decorated tubules of the contractile vacuole complex of Paramecium are proton pumps. J Cell Sci. 1995 Oct; 108 ( Pt 10):3163-70.
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Efficient transformation of cam2, a behavioral mutant of Paramecium tetraurelia, with the calmodulin gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991 Dec 01; 88(23):10845-9.
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Efficient expression of the Paramecium calmodulin gene in Escherichia coli after four TAA-to-CAA changes through a series of polymerase chain reactions. J Protozool. 1991 Sep-Oct; 38(5):441-7.
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Organization and expression of genetic determinants for synthesis and assembly of type 51 R bodies. J Bacteriol. 1986 Oct; 168(1):40-8.
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Extrachromosomal elements of extrachromosomal elements of Paramecium and their extrachromosomal elements. Basic Life Sci. 1986; 40:265-78.