Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study ...

On the dinner plate that is planet Earth, there exists a veritable buffet of viruses — an amount of biomass that is the equivalent of about 25 billion human beings. So perhaps it’s a bit baffling that ...

Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals, according to biologists. Groove-like tracks on ...

Most eukaryotic microorganisms carry out sexual reproduction during their life cycles. Although significant progress has been made in the study of mating for several fungal species, little is known ...

Tropical rainforests are one of the most species-rich areas on earth. Thousands of animal and plant species live there. The smaller microbial protists, which are not visible to the naked eye, are also ...

Bennett S. Lambert, Ryan D. Groussman, Megan J. Schatz, Sacha N. Coesel, Bryndan P. Durham, Andrew J. Alverson, Angelicque E. White, E. Virginia Armbrust Proceedings ...