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Ciliates as models... of what?

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In most cases, an organism is a model for a limited period of time. It becomes a model either because it is the best "object" to use in addressing a specific new set of questions, or because it is the best "object" to use in addressing a specific new set of questions, or because it is nicely adapted to the use of a new technology. In contrast to the previous examples, ciliates - andin particular paramecia - have remained model organisms for more than a century. They were not considered as models for the same reasons throughout this period, and it is possible to distinguish at least three successive and different uses of these organisms as models - at the end of the 19th century, in the middle of the 20th with the work of Tracy Sonneborn, and more recently in the molecular and post molecular era. The second episode is familiar to historians of 20th century biology (Sapp 1987). Recent studies have enriched it, as well as thrown light on the first use of ciliates as models.

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Michel Morange. Ciliates as models... of what?. Journal of Biosciences, 2006, 31 (1), pp.27-30. ⟨halshs-00791752⟩
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