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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

"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 ...

Like viruses, protists seethe in seawater by the billions and trillions — and some might slurp up marine viruses, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.

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