In this article, you’ll learn how eukaryotic cells operate, providing a solid foundation for understanding how life functions ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding ...

In looking at the genomes of the two species — a sea sponge and a marine protist called a dinoflagellate — they found evidence that around 40 million years ago, an introner jumped from one of these ...

The soil microbiome consists of bacteria, fungi, archaea (prokaryotic organisms that are single-celled, without having a defined nucleus), protists (eukaryotic organisms that are most often single ...

Eukaryotes are thought to have originated through a process known as endosymbiosis, in which an ancestral prokaryotic cell engulfed another, forming a mutually beneficial relationship. Over time, the ...

Some Eukaryotes, such as protists, algae and fungi, may be not only part of microbiomes of multicellular organisms, but they also host their own microbiomes which may include a broad spectrum of ...

The eukaryotes invented organization, if we use the literal definition of “organize”: to be furnished with organs. Inside a eukaryotic cell are self-contained, membrane-bound bundles that perform ...

Background Protistan biology was founded by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopic observations over 300 years ago. Haeckel, in 1866, proposed the kingdom Protista. These finds have blossomed with the ...

University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan—Meteora sporadica is a small, unicellular eukaryote (protist) that was discovered in deep Mediterranean sea sediments in 2002. It differs from known protists by ...

Meteora sporadica is a small, unicellular eukaryote (protist) that was discovered in deep Mediterranean sea sediments in 2002. It differs from known protists by the presence of two lateral arms ...