Because protists are so difficult to culture, they are rarely included in experiments. As a result, scientists still have a lot to learn about how protists affect plant health, growth, and production.

Not only are protists abundant -- collectively, they weigh twice as much as all the animals on the planet -- they also play a role in the overall movement of carbon between peatlands and the ...

Many groups of protists have evolved simplified mitochondria, but for a long time, scientists thought it was impossible for a species to completely lose them. The first eukaryotic organism ...

Microbiome (2024). [3] Bacterial and archaeal symbioses with protists. Current Biology (2021). [4] Host association and intracellularity evolved multiple times independently in the Rickettsiales.

Protists such as Blastocystis have much larger and more complex genomes than do bacteria — around 20 million base pairs for some Blastocystis subtypes, compared with fewer than 5 million for the ...

We used CODAP (the Collaborative Online Data Analysis Platform) to allow students to easily explore patterns in protist abundance and diversity in Dry Valleys lakes. Dr. Morgan-Kiss and MCM PhD ...

Tiny unicellular creatures called protists could keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere by gobbling up bacteria that emit CO2, researchers say. Now, a study finds that a few simple measures ...