perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

ABOVE: The ciliate Pseudoblepharisma tenue harbors both green algae and purple bacteria as symbionts. SEBASTIAN HESS M ore than a century ago, a German schoolteacher named Alfred Kahl made a career ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

The disease is caused by a pathogenic protist that has somehow travelled thousands of miles to infect its hosts. The parasite in question is called Maullinia, and only a handful of studies have ...

The Natural History Museum microbiology collection includes extant protozoan protists. The microbiology collection of extant protozoan protists comprises mainly microscope slides but also small ...

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 ...