<i>Stentor roeseli</i> Behavior (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

<i>Stentor roeseli</i> Behavior

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New research may have put to rest a century-old question on the behavior of the single-cell organism S. roeseli, shown here (a) resting, (b) bending, (c) contracting and (d) detaching in response to an irritant.

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Image credit: Joseph Dexter and Sudhakaran Prabakaran/Current Biology.

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