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The Tetrahymena Conjugation Junction

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Those who study ciliates have struggled over the years to establish a place in the pantheon of model organisms.1 Eukaryotic cell biologists have turned profitably to yeast models for the powerful genetic tools at their disposal, while developmental biologists have cultivated a gallery of metazoan embryos with contributions from the plant and fungal worlds. Yet ciliates continue to contribute to fundamental aspects of both cell biology and development, often by extreme example, and among the ciliates, Tetrahymena has emerged as one of the stars.

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