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Contractile Vacuoles

I HAVE just read W. Stempel's paper, “Ueber die Funktion der pulsierenden Vacuole,” to which Prof. Bayliss kindly directed my attention in NATURE of November 18, p. 376. Stempel's idea as to how the ...
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A new cell type has been found in plants that causes changes in mating by producing organ movements

This study is led by Dr. Yin-Zheng Wang (Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences). The research group first found that the stigma of Chirita pumila has movement, and proved that the ...
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Active water transport in unicellular algae: where, why, and how

The occurrence of active water transport (net transport against a free energy gradient) in photosynthetic organisms has been debated for several decades. Here, active water transport is considered in ...
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Indentation of the Pellicle of Tetrahymena at the Contractile Vacuole Pore before Systole

The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) is a not-for-profit publication, edited by scientists, and a leading life sciences journal. The JCB publishes papers on all aspects of cellular structure and function ...
Nature

Contractile Vacuoles

CONTRACTILE vacuoles are found only in those cells which lack a continuous cell-wall. This appeared to suggest that the function of the contractile vacuole is to eliminate dissolved crystalloids and ...