Protists, single-celled eukaryotic organisms encompassing unicellular algae and protozoans, inhabit aquatic environments. Functioning as primary producers and oxygen generators, they play crucial ...

Among the large cast of microbiome players, bacteria have been hogging the spotlight. But the single-celled organisms known as protists are finally getting the starring role they deserve. Among the ...

Alongside the bacteria, fungi and other organisms living in our guts are single-celled, nucleus-bearing microorganisms called protists. A study in mice — whose protists are related to some found in ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

Researchers have combined mathematical models, marine science, and metagenomics to answer a decades-old question - why are there so many species in the ocean? Ocean plankton are the drifters of the ...

New genetic evidence builds the case that single-celled marine microbes might chow down on viruses. By Katherine J. Wu On the dinner plate that is planet Earth, there exists a veritable buffet of ...