A new study demonstrates that even simple single-cell organisms, such as ciliates and amoebae, exhibit habituation, a basic ...

Focus: The systematics and diversity of free-living ciliates, particularly marine and brackish forms in costal waters We are focusing our research on the systematics and diversity of free-living ...

So, multiple sequenced representatives of the ciliates have joined the ranks of the sequenced apicomplexans; dinoflagellate genome sequences are now required to provide representatives of all ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

It was previously thought that learning behaviours only applied to animals with complex brain and nervous systems, but a new ...

Researchers suggest "one daring idea" would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity.