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Effects of Calcium Ion on Growth and Behavior of Tetrahymena pyriformis |
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| Authors: | TADAO SAITO HIROSHI ASAI |
| Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 160, Japan |
| Abstract: | The chelator GEDTA was used to show that Ca2+ is required for the growth of Tetrahymena pyriformis strain W and for normal galvanotactic responses and swimming. |
| Keywords: | Index Key Words: Tetrahymena pyriformis strain W calcium ion growth galvanotaxis behavior. |