Protists represent a remarkably diverse group of unicellular and simple multicellular eukaryotes that occupy a broad spectrum of ecological niches. Recent advances have greatly enhanced our ...

Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, complex life forms that are neither plants ...

Researchers studied in detail the strange protist Meteora sporadica, which swings its two lateral arms back and forth. The results of the study indicated that M. sporadica has a complex cytoskeleton ...

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 ...

Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study ...

Skeleton of the new species, Calciopappus curvus observed under a scanning electron microscope at the Natural History Museum London (UK). Scale bar = 2 μm. A newly described coccolithophore species, ...

A total of 359 soil samples collected from five continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America) were investigated for the presence/absence of soil ciliate species. Merging records by ...

Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, complex life forms that are neither plants ...