For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

There is a high degree of ciliary specialization, ranging from motile cilia of the respiratory epithelium to primary ...

The team’s close examination of the organelles revealed they are a hybrid of sorts between primary and motile cilia with molecular and structural aspects of both, upending the longstanding binary ...

1. How cilia talk» Primary (non-motile) cilia use membrane proteins in their role as a coordinator of the cell’s signaling pathways. New findings show how a cilium retains those membrane proteins—a ...

Ciliogenesis is the process by which cilia – slender outgrowths on a cell's surface in eukaryotes – form. Motile cilia have a beating motion and serve to move fluids, whereas non-motile ...