Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant and widespread in the "dark forest" of our planet's deep soils. Using high-quality metagenome data, an international ...

Credit: Michigan State University Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water purification and environmental solutions.

Biologists have now discovered a widespread and relatively abundant bacterial phylum, named CSP1-3, in deep soils and evaluated its phylogeny, ecology, metabolism, and evolutionary history. “The ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new phylum of microbes, CSP1-3, has been discovered in the deep soil of Earth's Critical Zone, which plays a crucial role in water purification. These microbes ...

Illustration of the initially discovered endosymbiont ‘Candidatus Azoamicus ciliaticola’ and its ciliate host. The figure is a composite of a scanning electron microscope image (SEM, grey) and ...

Stalkers in Stalker 2 would be nothing without their Artifacts. For most Loners, it’s why they stay around in the Zone, and for Skiff, it’s a key way to increase survivability and get the ...

A later outbreak caused by a single-celled organism known as a ciliate further decimated urchins. As a result, algae have taken over spaces that were once home to coral; the amount of live coral ...

A healthy reef tends to have a lot of herbivores.” In the new study, Ritchie and her colleagues report that a single-celled organism called a ciliate, which was identified last year as the cause of a ...

Structure Infusorian of the shoeshoe type or Paramecium caudatum. Paramecium caudatum is a species of unicellular protist in the phylum Ciliophora. ciliate stock illustrations Structure Infusorian of ...

This repository contains a short report investigating temperature-driven dynamics in ciliate feeding patterns and their implications for microbial ecosystems. Methods include phagocytosis analysis and ...

A new species of pond ciliate, similar to the one pictured here, translates the normal "stop" codons UAA and UAG into two different amino acids during protein synthesis. Image credit: Aaron J.