Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

A predatory protist selected and sorted (separated from all other free-living creatures and particles) at sea using patterns of how laser light scatters from the cell and fluorescence staining. Credit ...

It is a really powerful tool. We hope to determine which immune cells and pathways are moderated by protists and whether the moderation is beneficial. We also want to know how protists are ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in ... perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line ...

"Eukaryotes, in particular the single-celled ones, termed protists, carry in their genomes a collection of virophages that ...

My research examines the origin and evolutionary history of eukaryotic cells. I work with 'protists', that is, all those eukaryotes that are NOT animals, plants or fungi. Most protists are ...

Scientists have found strange yellow growths called galls on kelp in Latin America, southern Africa, and Australasia. The disease is caused by a pathogenic protist that has somehow travelled thousands ...