an aquatic protozoan often used for genetic research
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Tetrahymena lysates activated this receptor in the heterologous expression system.
P.N. Agbedanu, M.T. Brewer, T.A. Day, M.J. Kimber, K.L. Anderson, S.K. Rasmussen,M.A. Rasmussen, S.A. Carlson 2013, 'Involvement of a putative intercellular signal-recognizing G protein-coupled receptorin the engulfment of Salmonella by the protozoan Tetrahymena', Open Veterinary Journalhttp://www.openveterinaryjournal.com/2013/Volume%203%20(2)/OVJ-050-04-13%20P.N.%20Agbedanu%20et%20al.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Tetrahymena thermophila, a unicellular eukaryote, has been a useful model organism and has a fully sequenced but sparsely annotated genome.
Lev M. Tsypin, Aaron P. Turkewitz 2017, 'The Co-regulation Data Harvester: Automating gene annotation starting from a transcriptomedatabase', SoftwareXhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711017300237. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Tetrahymena forms 17 distinct microtubular structures whose assembly had been thoughtto be based on single α- and β-isotypes.
Sandra Pucciarelli, Patrizia Ballarini, Daniela Sparvoli, Sabrina Barchetta, TingYu, H William Detrich, Cristina Miceli 2012, 'Distinct functional roles of β-tubulin isotypes in microtubule arrays of Tetrahymenathermophila, a model single-celled organism.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3382179?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)