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THE larger ciliate protozoa provide a system which is particularly favourable for the investigation of the relationship between radiation sensitivity and events in vegetative growth and division. Individual animals can be isolated in the visible stages of cell division in sufficient numbers to provide a synchronized population for experimentation. Synchronization in this manner produces a minimum of the growth abnormalities which occur when synchronization is produced by such means as heat shock or antibiotics.
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CALKINS, J. Variation of Radiation Sensitivity of Paramecium aurelia as a Function of Time of Irradiation in the Interdivision Growth Cycle. Nature 198, 704 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198704a0
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