Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

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

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

It’s commonly recognized that birds rank among the closest direct descendants of dinosaurs, but many people wonder if they can be classified as animals. We’ll work through the defining ...

But the oxygen story doesn't fully explain why multicellular ancestors of animals, plants, and fungi appeared simultaneously, and why the transition to multicellularity took more than 1 billion years.

Microbes are single or multicellular microscopic organisms. Plant-microbe interactions can bring benefit or harm to plants. For instance, mycorrhizal fungi can supply plants with nutrients ...

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 ...

In this book, the author shows how the phenomenon of cell differentiation, considered in its temporal and spatial aspects during embryogenesis, provides a starting point for a unified theory of ...

Marine ecosystems harbor a vast array of microorganisms and multicellular life forms adapted to extreme and varied habitats. These organisms, from actinomycetes to fish and fungi, produce structurally ...