Algal blooms have many causes, but it's commonly chemicals in industrial fertilizers that end up in rivers and oceans in a ...

Newly discovered relatives of red algae may rewrite the evolutionary history of the Archaeplastida supergroup of eukaryotes, researchers reported July 17 in Nature. The protists Rhodelphis limneticus ...

Vancouver Island, BC - Some West Coasters say it reminds them of herring spawn. Others say it mirrors the milky blue of ...

A Protist Hosts Both Green Algae and Purple Bacteria Symbionts Having two different endosymbionts may allow the ciliate Pseudoblepharisma tenue to live in both oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor zones of the ...

Green water and string algae or blanket weed are two types of algae that are often a nuisance for pond owners, says Cathy Green, owner of Grassland Aquatics. The kind of algae in a garden pond ...

Algae are photosynthetic and are vital primary producers in ecosystems such as the ocean. There are also pathogenic protists, like apicomplexan Plasmodium, which causes malaria.

The unicellular protist Orciraptor agilis produces a number of partly novel enzymes and binding proteins while penetrating the cell wall of dead microalgae. Such enzymes could potentially be ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic evolution ...

"Protists include species traditionally referred to as protozoa and algae, some fungal-like organisms, and many other life forms that do not fit into the old worldview that divided species between ...

Researchers release initial dataset for protist genomes project Protists, single-celled eukaryotic organisms encompassing unicellular algae and protozoans, inhabit aquatic environments.

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae. Scientists are currently debating the events leading to the appearance of plastids in eukaryotic cells. Where did plastids ...

Protist predation can favour or suppress particular bacterial species, and the successful microbial groups in the water column are those that survive this selective grazing pressure.