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John R. Preer, Jr., following up on Sonneborn's work, says, "The arrangement of surface structures is inherited, but how is not known, Macronuclei pass on many of their characteristics to new macronuclei, by an unknown and mysterious mechanism."<ref name="pmid9071578">{{cite journal | author = Preer JR | title = Whatever happened to paramecium genetics? | journal = Genetics | volume = 145 | issue = 2 | pages = 217–25 |date=February 1997 | doi = 10.1093/genetics/145.2.217 | pmid = 9071578 | pmc = 1207789 }}</ref>

Other researchers have come to the conclusion that "the phenomena of cortical inheritance (and related nongenic, epigenetic processes) remind us that the fundamental reproductive unit of life is not a nucleic acid molecule, but the remarkably versatile, intact, living cell."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://science.jrank.org/pages/48371/Cortical-Inheritance.html |title=Cortical Inheritance – Paramecium, Tetrahymena:, Teutophrys, Dileptus, Paramecium:, Pattern Formation: Ciliate Studies and Models – Cell, Cells, Structures, Prion, Genetic, and Information |publisher=Science.jrank.org |access-date=2011-06-30cn}}</ref>

The study of structural inheritance is part of the [[extended evolutionary synthesis]].<ref>[http://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/structural-inheritance-the-parent-as-a-developmental-template/ "Structural inheritance: The parent as a developmental template"]. Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.</ref>