"Cilia are microtubule-base protrusions from the surface of most cells
in the human body. They can be found in species from all branches
of the eukaryotic tree of life and were probably already present in the
last eukaryotic common ancestor (Carvalho-Santos et al., 2011). In
all ciliated species, cilia are crucial for the development and
physiology of the organism, and they carry out many different
functions ranging from motility to sensing (Choksi et al., 2014).(...)