Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start. Three billion years ago, life on Earth was simple. Single-celled organisms ruled, and there wasn’t much to them. They were what ...

But it now seems that actually they might not be that essential, as researchers describe the first eukaryote known that lacks mitochondria. “In low-oxygen environments, eukaryotes often possess ...

We present two cases of soft-tissue infection caused by the chlorophyll-containing alga Desmodesmus armatus in immunocompetent adults. Patient 1, a 24-year-old man who had no underlying medical ...

But researchers now challenges this notion. They've discovered a eukaryote that contains absolutely no trace of mitochondria at all. Mitochondria are membrane-bound components within cells that ...

Laboratory and in vivo studies by a team of scientists at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), have now shown how one subtype of the common gut eukaryote ...

At first, he mistook the long, white filaments as some sort of eukaryote, Gros said at the news conference. But a few years later, genetic analyses showed that the organisms were actually bacteria.

It’s time to welcome a new type of cell to the club of living things that can harvest nitrogen from the atmosphere. Until now, the only lifeforms thought to pull nitrogen from the air and turn ...

This paper is part of a larger project investigating early eukaryote evolution. Riedman and Porter want to know in what environments early eukaryotes were diversifying, why they were there ...

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A eukaryote is any cell or organism that possesses a clearly defined nucleus. Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans.

This paper is part of a larger project investigating early eukaryote evolution. Riedman and Porter want to know in what environments early eukaryotes were diversifying, why they were there ...