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Van Houten, J. and Preston, R.R.; Eukaryotic unicells: how useful in studying chemoreception? Ann.N.Y.Acad.Sci. 510:16-22, 1987

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The description of the chemoreception pathway in Paramecium is incomplete, but the technical means are available to study these pathways at the molecular level. The hallmark of ciliates is their versatility and their most important attribute is the availability of useful mutants. It is just this versatility and amenability to genetic manipulation that will move the study of Paramecium chemoreception forward and provide useful information for chemoreceptor cell function in general.