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Science 3 November 1978:
Vol. 202. no. 4367, pp. 530 - 532
DOI: 10.1126/science.202.4367.530
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Sorocarp Development by a Newly Discovered Ciliate

LINDSAY S. OLIVE 1

1 Department of Botany, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27514

A recently discovered predatory ciliate has an unusual developmental pattern in which the swimming cells cease feeding and aggregate on a substrate near the surface of a liquid medium. The aggregate then rises aerially, producing an acellular stalk and a sorus of encysted cells. Sorogenesis requires alternate light and dark periods.

Submitted on July 28, 1978


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