We are all closely associated with microorganisms. The most common example is the human gut, where bacteria are necessary for digestion and health or can be responsible for illness. The plant ...

In new research published this week in Cell Host & Microbe, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in ...

At the height of his career in the 1950s through the ’70s, he studied, photographed, filmed and wrote about animals, plants and microorganisms, including protists (SN: 9/15/62, p. 172).

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 ...

Weston created the video to showcase protists and bring awareness to the vital roles they play in various ecosystems on Earth. For example, protists also support coral reefs, Forbes reports.

It is a protist – a single-celled organism that is a eukaryote, which means it has a complex internal structure and is more related to animals, plants and fungi than it is to bacteria. When we… ...

Tristan Biard, Mark D. Ohman, Vertical niche definition of test-bearing protists (Rhizaria) into the twilight zone revealed by in situ imaging, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 65, No. 11 (November ...

Martin R. Langer, Jere H. Lipps, Werner E. Piller, Molecular Paleobiology of Protists: Amplification and Direct Sequencing of Foraminiferal DNA, Micropaleontology ...

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017; 1: 0091 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0091 ...