... been used to follow the development of five cortical components: basal bodies, ciliary rootlets, outer lattice, epiplasm and cytospindle. This study demonstrates that the cortex of Paramecium undergoes an elaborate development process following conjugation. Some of the cortical structures...

... at the conjugation junction by looking at cells in the period between mixing and pairing. By brief incubations with F-ConA at intervals after mixing, it was ascertained that some cells had fluorescent tips as early as 15 min. A kinetic analysis revealed that ‘tipping’ occurs in a manner that appears to be related...