Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2017), pp. 421-436 (16 pages) Fast, frequent, and spontaneous jumping by the photosynthetic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum is highly adaptive for overcoming ...

This study is led by Dr. Ying Yan (Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China). Ciliated protists represent one of the most primitive lineages of eukaryotes, with nuclear ...

Chlorophyll a concentrations were determined fluorometrically (Parsons et al., 1984). Subsamples of 150 ml were filtered through glass fiber filters (GF/F; Whatman, Maidstone, UK) and subsequently ...

A microbiome is a community of microorganisms that inhabit an ecological niche. Microbiomes exist in both environmental biotopes, for example, a water body or forest soil - and in living multicellular ...

Basically, we can make very few generalisations." Oligohymenophorea sp. PL0344 is a ciliate. These swimming protists can be seen with a microscope and are found almost anywhere there is water.

A Protist Hosts Both Green Algae and Purple Bacteria Symbionts Having two different endosymbionts may allow the ciliate Pseudoblepharisma tenue to live in both oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor zones of the ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There exists a wonderful book with an ...