aware of my growing obsession with the small—an interest sparked by my introduction to foraminifera (forams for short), single-celled organisms of an ancient order of protist, which number in ...

Stentor coeruleus is a giant unicellular, filter-feeding protist that uses the coordinated ... A heterotrophic ciliate, the genus lives in ponds and lakes, where it anchors its slender end ...

Protists are unicellular eukaryotes that are widespread in all types of habitats (Buck et al. 2000, Laybourn-Parry et al. 2000, Pedros-Alio et al. 2000, Scott et al. 2001). They are an essential ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual bacteriophages as they spread through the gut of zebrafish, showing that ...

Eukaryotes are generally subdivided into four kingdoms: animals, plants, fungi, and protists (basically a catch-all category for all eukaryotes that aren’t animals, plants, or fungi).

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The pooled sample was then submitted for sequencing. Table 3. Summary of Mann–Whitney U-tests conducted on the relative abundance and richness of protist and prokaryote microbial groups and fluid ...

The giant ciliate Stentor coeruleus is a classical model system for studying regeneration and morphogenesis in a single cell. The anterior of the cell is marked by an array of cilia, known as the oral ...

Microbial co-occurrence network analysis is being widely used for data exploration in plant microbiome research. Still, challenges lie in how well these microbial networks represent natural microbial ...

Algae are essential components of marine and freshwater habitats in and around Australia. The play a critical role in nutrient cycling, as food and shelter for invertebrates and fish, and some have ...

The hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila hosts a single 16S rRNA phylotype of intracellular sulfur-oxidizing symbionts, which vary considerably in cell morphology and exhibit a remarkable ...