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 ...

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

New research reveals that stentors, which are part of a group called protists, may address this challenge by eating “family style.” In a paper published on Monday in the journal Nature Physics ...

Disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi or protists are called pathogens. Sterilising water, preparing food hygienically, washing, vaccination and barrier contraception can reduce the spread of ...

Pathogens are disease-causing viruses, bacteria, fungi or protists, which can infect animals and plants. Humans have an immune system, which can defend them from pathogens. Treating, curing and ...