produced by microscopic, unicellular protists known as Foraminifera. When Foraminifera die, their shells remain in the sea and the tide brings them ashore. In the case of Hatoma, Iriomote and ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...

Protists, typically unicellular microscopic organisms that aren’t animals, fungi or plants, perform all functions within a cell. But animals are the ultimate delegators: some cells are assigned ...

They were microscopic unicellular creatures with little to no ability to coordinate. Yet billions of years of evolution through competition and natural selection led to the complex life forms we ...

The adhesion of Chlamydomonas, a unicellular alga, to surfaces is light-dependent. Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out photosynthesis. Some unicellular algae actually use ...

Diatoms are microscopic unicellular algae occurring in natural waters worldwide. During photosynthesis, they take up large quantities of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas emitted through ...

they have induced unicellular yeasts to grow into multicellular clusters of immense size, going from microscopic to branching structures visible to the naked eye. The findings illustrate how such a ...

In the task to classify the unicellular parasites found in the ... and eventually a body, ranging from a microscopic jellyfish to a huge blue whale," explained the researcher.

For most of the first 2.5 billion years of life on Earth, most species were microscopic, rarely exceeding one millimeter in size, and unicellular. Many different kinds of larger life forms ...

On one hand, they noted, microscopic, unicellular bacteria, algae and protists that weigh only a few micrograms live fast, generate much new biomass per day or even per minute, and die young ...