While it may be comforting to some scientists to have a smaller range of the expected eukaryotic diversity, that still leaves some 86 percent of land species and 91 percent of marine species ...

Through high-resolution analysis and a global compilation of fossil data, this research illuminates the diversity and evolutionary dynamics of eukaryotic life during the Proterozoic. These ...

The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is microbial, with plants, animals and fungi representing only three of some 60–200 lineages of eukaryotes. Many of these microbial lineages are understudied, yet the ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 3 (2016), pp. 806-824 (19 pages) Picophytoplankton, including photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (PPE) and unicellular cyanobacteria, are important contributors to ...