Paramecium

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXII

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2. Introduction

   • Hans-Dieter Görtz

   Pages 1-3

3. Cytology

   • Richard D. Allen

   Pages 4-40

4. The Species Concept and Breeding Systems

   • Dennis Nyberg

   Pages 41-58

5. Mating-Type Inheritance

   • Yuuji Tsukii

   Pages 59-69

6. Conjugation

   • Masahiro Fujishima

   Pages 70-84

7. Mating-Type Substances

   • Akio Kitamura

   Pages 85-96

8. The Cell Cycle and Regulation of Cell Mass and Macronuclear DNA Content

   • James D. Berger

   Pages 97-119

9. Nuclear Dimorphism and Function

   • Kazuyuki Mikami

   Pages 120-130

10. Aging

    • Yoshiomi Takagi

    Pages 131-140

11. Organization and Expression of the Nuclear Genome

    • Manfred Freiburg

    Pages 141-154

12. Immobilization Antigens

    • Helmut J. Schmidt

    Pages 155-166

13. Mitochondria

    • Annie Sainsard-Chanet, Donald Cummings

    Pages 167-184

14. Electrophysiology

    • Hans Machemer

    Pages 185-215

15. Motor Control of Cilia

    • Hans Machemer

    Pages 216-235

16. A Genetic Dissection of Ion-Channel Functions

    • Rajeev Ramanathan, Yoshiro Saimi, Robert Hinrichsen, Anthony Burgess-Cassler, Ching Kung

    Pages 236-253

17. Biochemistry of Cilia

    • Joachim E. Schultz, Susanne Klumpp

    Pages 254-270

18. Behavioral Genetics in P. caudatum

    • Mihoko Takahashi

    Pages 271-281

19. Chemokinesis

    • Judith Van Houten, Robin R. Preston

    Pages 282-300

20. The Lysosome System

    • Agnes K. Fok, Richard D. Allen

    Pages 301-324

Why a Book on Paramecium? Biologists usually concentrate their efforts on a single problem and a single organism. There is a difficulty with this practice, however, for as work on a problem proceeds it often becomes more ad­ vantageous to study the problem in another organism. Some biologists avoid the difficulty by moving from one organism to the other as the problem de­ mands. However, this tactic also has a disadvantage, for a thorough knowledge of the life cycle and thorough mastery of ways to handle a given organism in the laboratory are obviously of great importance to the researcher, and one can never know several organisms as well as one can know a single one. Another way of doing research is to pick the organism, learn all one can about it from all points of view, and then assess the significance of the findings. Tracy Sonneborn practiced research in very much this way. He would have found virtually every chapter in this volume about Paramecium a fascinating summary of one of his areas of research. Indeed, the beginnings of most of the topics in this book are founded on his studies. With every new fact he learned about Paramecium, he carefully assessed the significance of his findings, not on­ ly for research on protozoa, but for biology in general. His work, and in a way this book too, are indicative of the success of his strategy.

• biochemistry
• biology
• chemistry
• cytology
• ecology
• genetics
• molecular biology

• Zoologisches Institut der Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

  Hans-Dieter Görtz

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