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Holotrichous ciliates, like Paramecium, swim through their aqueous environment by beating their many cilia. They can alter swimming speed and direction, which seems to have mesmerized early microscopists of the 1600s. We know from extensive and elegant physiological studies and generation of mutants that these cells can be considered little swimming neurons because their ciliary beating is under bioelectric...
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