UCLEAR differentiation is often responsible for phenotypic differences among genically identical lines in ciliates and is demonstrated by patterns of assortment in vegetative pedigrees. The first example of such a nuclear differentiation ( SONNEBORN 1937( SONNEBORN , 1939 was the "caryonidal inheritance" of mating types in syngen 1 of Paramecium aurelia. In this case, macronuclei usually differentiate in an "all-or-none" fashion early in their development, and mating types are distributed at the cell divisions at which whole new macronuclei are assorted. Macronuclear differentiation is also the basis for mating type determination in the Group B syngens of P. aurelia, which appeared initially to manifest "cytoplasmic inheritance" (SONNEBORN 1954; NANNEY 1957). In syngen 1 of Tetrahymena pyriformis, macronuclear differentiation is again responsible for intraclonal mating type differences, but the diploid subunits of a single compound macronucleus often differentiate to express different mating types and then continue to assort for many cell divisions (NANNEY 1956; ALLEN and NANNEY 1958). Submacronuclear differentiation and vegetative assortment have also been demonstrated to underlie intraclonal variations in the H-immobilization antigens (NANNEY and DUBERT 1960) and the esterase and acid phosphatase isozymes (ALLEN 1960(ALLEN ,1961 ALLEN, MISCH and MORRISON 1963).