Paper Info
Title
On the Processing Power of Protozoa
Abstract
The ciliated protozoa are a diverse, and ubiquitously occuring, group of unicellular eukaryotic organisms of striking complexity. Almost all ciliates are binucleated; that is, unlike other eukaryotes, they have two types of nuclei: micronuclei and macronuclei. The macronuclei behave functionally as one would typically expect of a eukaryotic nucleus: they express proteins and take care of the general "housekeeping" functions of the cell. Ciliate macronuclei are ampliploid and contain very little non-coding DNA. The diploid micronuclei, arranged much more like a typical eukaryotic nucleus, are inert during the "day-to-day" functioning of the cell and serve instead as a storehouse for germline information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_17
CiE
Keywords
Field
DocType
ubiquitously occuring,non-coding dna,striking complexity,ciliated protozoan,diploid micronucleus,typical eukaryotic nucleus,germline information,unicellular eukaryotic organism,ciliate macronucleus,eukaryotic nucleus,processing power,micronuclei
Protozoa,Ciliated protozoa,Nucleus,Combinatorics,Ploidy,Germline,Cell biology,DNA,Ciliate,Cell,Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5028
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
4
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark Daley116622.18