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Ciliate Biology: The Graceful Hunt of a Shape-Shifting Predator

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posted on 2025-08-01, 08:07 authored by KY Wan
Even single-celled eukaryotes are capable of highly complex behaviors. A new study reveals how one unicellular predator actively manipulates and remodels its unique cytoskeletal morphology to achieve rapid shape changes and a remarkable hunting strategy.

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(C) 2019 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Current Biology

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Elsevier

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2019-11-25T09:58:49Z

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2019-11-25T10:01:52Z

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Vol. 29 (22), pp. R1174 - R1176

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  • Mathematics and Statistics

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