Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

A healthy chickpea plant (a116, left) compared to an infected plant (a115, right) Dr. Björn Krenz, head of the Plant Virus Department at t ...

Around five years ago, a team of researchers proved that single-celled organisms have more intellect and instincts than they are usually credited for. In the study, researchers undertook Stentor ...

Eukaryotic microorganisms, or protists, are essential ecological agents that populate various environments like aquatic and ...

Chemoautotrophy has been observed within Bacteria and Archaea ... Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor ...

His lab studies these proteins in diverse organisms, including animals, plants, fungi and single cellular protists. Letts received the presidential award for his Department of Energy-funded work on ...

That's slowly changing, but there are still some soil creatures we know very little about. Protists, for example. These tiny, mostly unicellular organisms are on their way to becoming a 'fertile ...