Until recently, DNA viruses in protist genomes had been overlooked, mainly due to a lack of scientific studies dedicated to ...

perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

You study protists in the ocean. What are they, and why are they important? Protists are unicellular organisms with a key position in the planktonic food web. Phytoplankton use the sun’s energy ...