Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

Protists, a broad class of generally single-celled organisms that includes algae and amoebae, have long been regarded as a “catch-all” category for diverse microorganisms. Because of their diversity ...

Viruses are the most prevalent biological entities in the world's oceans and play essential roles in its ecological and biogeochemical balance. Yet, they are the least understood elements of marine ...

A new Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded collaboration led by the Earlham Institute with SAMS, CCAP, and Aalborg ...

Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals, according to biologists. Groove-like tracks on ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on ...

Get your students to create their own GCSE mind maps by answering the information laid out in this resource. Use this task as an opportunity to outline areas for development by using retrieval ...

Newswise — STARKVILLE, Miss.--From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a unicellular protist is hinting at answers about the evolution of multicellularity while raising a whole new set of questions. Matthew ...

Oceans cover two thirds of the surface of the earth, and host half of earth’s primary production via photosynthesis. Within the ocean, the largest single group of organisms by biomass are the protists ...