The high prokaryotic mortality in pelagic habitats is caused by both viral lysis and predation by ciliated and flagellated protists. Viral lysis is thought to have the greatest effect on prokaryotic ...

A study visualizing the fluid flow around 15 species of unicellular flagellated protists, which use their flagella to generate currents that enable feeding while avoiding detection by flow-sensing ...

Keeping the gut microbiota physically separated from the epithelial cells of the host is critical to health. A breach of the epithelium can induce acute disease and allow systemic infection. Moreover, ...

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 have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

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 ...