The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology has just published a very nice paper showing how the details of protist evolution "dispel the myths of intelligent design." Generally, protists are "unicellular ...

Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint project ...

The cellular compartment of the vertebrate host innate immune system has been shown to have an important role in early resistance and the development of acquired immunity and, in some instances, in ...

Ciliates, complex protozoans with two nuclei, are known to translate RNA transcripts in unorthodox ways. Nowacki’s team, however, discovered that Condylostoma magnum and an unclassified Parduczia ...

Genlisea, with its delicate yellow and violet flowers and tiny green leaves, looks a bit like a snapdragon. But it's a puzzling plant. It lives on nutrient-poor soils where other plants would starve.

Figure 1: Triassic amber with microinclusions, from the Dolomites in northern Italy. Representatives of all trophic levels of the microbiocoenosis were preserved in these samples of Triassic amber: ...

Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean. Two new genera and four ...