Researchers have made a surprising discovery of Henneguya salminicola, a microscopic parasite residing in salmon muscles, as ...

The biological taxonomy system can be a confusing and sometimes imperfect method for categorizing life. However, it can also ...

Young, newly planted trees have been uprooted and ripped from their shallow grip, now sagging limply, while hefty branches ...

So they paddled out on canoes to collect sediment samples, each one packed with “extremophiles” — microscopic beings like bacteria, viruses, fungi and algae who thrive ... around for billions of years ...

The term “microbiome” was coined to describe the collective community of bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes that colonize ... as do all the surfaces and objects within. And most multicellular ...

grew larger and organized into a fused cluster resembling the tissue of multicellular organisms. The microbes' flexible proteinaceous surface layer, more similar to animal cell membranes than the ...

Cell-cell communication is essential for both unicellular and multicellular organisms ... and symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Understanding these interactions provides insights into the ...

Fungal biology is the scientific discipline that concerns the biology of fungi, which include unicellular microorganisms as well as large multicellular organisms. Fungal biology is sometimes ...

Scientists have confirmed that Dickinsonia, a 558-million-year-old fossil, is the world’s oldest known animal, pushing back ...