However, many questions about primary cilia still remain unanswered. What is their evolutionary origin? Are they the primitive form of cilia, or did they arise from motile cilia? What are the ...

Motile cilia are present on multiciliated cells and use this cytoskeleton to move fluid, whereas non-motile, or primary, cilia have a different cytoskeleton and participate in signalling between ...

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 ...

Now, in a recently published Journal of Cell Biology paper, scientists used a newer electron microscopy technique, called volume electron microscopy (vEM), to examine how primary cilia on developing ...

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