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).

Life How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints Single-celled organisms that cluster and cooperate provide tantalising insights into the origins of multicellularity ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the ocean, some protists function like plants, using light to manufacture their own food. Others, such as choanoflagellates, which are animals' closest living unicellular relatives, envelop and ...

Pictures: Sally Warring (Image: Archant) Protists are everywhere and they are incredibly biologically diverse. They engage in complex behaviours and interact with their environment in interesting ...

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 ...

Anaerobic protists have specialist mitochondria for their energy metabolism in the absence of oxygen and they have been shown to be major predator of bacteria in aquatic environments. However, polar ...

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 ...

However, there had previously been no large-scale genome program for protists in the world. So far, genome data of only about 400 protist species have been published, said Miao Wei, deputy ...