perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

All life on Earth is classified within three domains — bacteria, archaea and eukarya — with eukarya containing all ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week in Cell Host ...

Our comprehensive search suggests that venom delivery systems fully analogous to those of animals exist among plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and viruses. Thus, venomous organisms are far more ...

You study protists in the ocean. What are they, and why are they important? Protists are unicellular organisms with a key position in the planktonic food web. Phytoplankton use the sun’s energy ...

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hanliang “Han” Guo, Ph.D., is the co-author of newly published research that “potentially provides ...

The Natural History Museum microbiology collection includes extant protozoan protists. The microbiology collection of extant protozoan protists comprises mainly microscope slides but also small ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...