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

UC Santa Cruz researchers are studying the ways certain genetic elements hide and make copies of themselves, so they can ...

Brown algae and their associated pathogens play an important role in marine ecosystems, influencing biodiversity and ecosystem stability. The phytomyxean pathogen Maullinia ectocarpii is an obligate ...

The discovery was surprising because scientists thought the genes that allowed stem cells to divide and specialize occurred only in animals and certainly not in a single-celled protist group from ...

Fun fact: One type of parasitic protist caused the historic Irish potato famine in the mid-19th century. Another is responsible for malaria. Example of a protist The fungus kingdom has one measly ...

Is it defying any laws? It doesn’t make sense.” With a combination of microscopy and live imaging, Flaum and Prakesh found that the protist’s long proboscis is covered in long polymers ...

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora. Current Biology , 2024; 34 (2): 451 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.032 Cite This Page : ...

Recent efforts to understand protist communities and their response to environmental factors showed that nitrogen fertilizers have a major impact on shaping protist communities. Although nitrogen is ...

Mitochondria are very well known as the powerhouses of the cell. Generally speaking, all eukaryotes, including plants, fungi, and animals, are made of cells that contain mitochondria. These organelles ...

“What our findings do is connect to a host and hopefully eventually prove that there is a protist that contains a mirusvirus genome,” said Collier. The Aurantiiochytrium protist, which is part of the ...

The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in the DNA code signaling the end of a gene, suggesting the need for further research to better understand this group of diverse ...

To do so, we exposed microbial communities to two cosmopolitan protist species—Tetrahymena thermophila and Colpidium sp.—at two different temperatures, in a month-long microcosm experiment. While ...