Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

More information: Fatma Gomaa et al, Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments, The ISME Journal (2024).

Eukaryotic microorganisms, or protists, are essential ecological agents that populate various environments like aquatic and ...

Since our study is the first of its kind, we could not compare Tintinnina with other plankton. However, we speculate that the single-celled protist plankton might have similar organization mechanism ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

There are an estimated 10 31 viruses on Earth. That is to say: there may be a hundred million times more viruses on Earth than there are stars in the universe. The majority of these viruses infect ...

IN a previous paper from this Institute 1 it was shown, by using the isotope technique, that hyphæ of Boletus variegatus (Sw.) Fr. in mycorrhizal connexion with pine seedlings transfer nitrogen ...

The embedded 46 work placement on this degree programme provides students with the opportunity to utilise the practical, transferable and professional skills gained during the teaching of their degree ...