Cellular Cognition: Sequential Logic in a Giant Protist

Wallace F Marshall

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.034

Cellular Cognition: Sequential Logic in a Giant Protist

Curr Biol. 2019 Dec 16;29(24):R1303-R1305. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.10.034.

Author

Wallace F Marshall¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA. Electronic address: Wallace.Marshall@ucsf.edu.

Abstract

Quantitative analysis of the giant ciliate Stentor roeselii shows that a single cell can make decisions, based on the ability to switch between several different behaviors in a non-random order.

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MeSH terms

Avoidance Learning*
Ciliophora*
Cognition
Eukaryotic Cells
Logic

Grants and funding

R35 GM130327/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States