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Bruce S. Perlman; Temperature Effects on Maturity Periods in Tetrahymena pyriformis Syngen 1. J.Protozool. 20(1):106-107, 1973
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Cells of Tetrahymena pyriformis sygen 1 grown at 30 degrees C after conjugation achieve sexual maturity more quickly than do cells grown at 19 degrees C, whether time is measured in numbers of cell division or in terms of absolute time. This result is achieved regardless of the temperature at which conjugation and nuclear reorganization occur. These observation differ from those of other workers investigating Paramecium, and suggest that the long term "chronometer" is more tightly coupled to cell division in Paramecium multimicronucleatum and Paramecium caudatum than in Tetrahymena pyriformis.