Microtubule-containing Cytoskeletons of Protists

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This article lists and discusses items about microtubule-containing cytoskeletons of protists.

Particularly Relevant Items
Gull, K., "Protist tubulins: new arrivals, evolutionary relationships and insights to cytoskeletal function", Current Opinion in Microbiology, Vol. 4, No. 4, August 2001, pp. 427-432: Satir, P., "The Generation of Ciliary Motion", Journal of Protozoology, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1984, pp. 8-12:
 * Page 427 describes protists as having "extravagant expression of microtubule-containing structures", such as flagella, cilia, axostyles, spindles, bundles, and cortical arrays.
 * Page 428 mentions the difficulty of explaining evolution of complex microtubule cytoskeletons in protozoans.
 * Pages 8-11 discuss microtubule-based axonemes in protists; an axoneme includes a force generating system, also known as a sliding system, and a control system.

Possibly Relevant Items
Sherrington, C.S., Man on his Nature, Second Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1951: Anderson, P.A.V., "Concluding Remarks", in Anderson, P.A.V., Ed., Evolution of the First Nervous System, 1989, Chapter 30, pp. 409-413: Hameroff, S., "The neuron doctrine is an insult to neurons", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 22, 1999, pp. 838-839: Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K., and Walter, P., Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fifth Edition, New York: Garland Science, 2008:
 * Page 208 describes single-celled animals with motor behavior and specialized parts for movement, suggesting that the cyto-skeleton might serve a role analogous to neurons in multi-celled animals.
 * Page 409 points out that some protists are capable of primitive communication with one another.
 * Page 839 describes paramecium, in which the cytoskeleton plays useful roles, and quotes Sherrington (1951), above.
 * Pages 32-33 describe protists, mentioning elaborate anatomy of some protozoa, with various structures, allowing them to be as intricate, versatile, and complex in behavior as many multicellular organisms.