Plants evolved in a world dominated by prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. Underneath the surface, plant roots interact with microbes in the soil, also called the rhizosphere microbiome. Although ...

In the world of microbes, organisms like viruses and bacteria get a lot of attention. But now, researchers are beginning to study other unicellular life forms, like archaea, and protists. Protists ...

Protists, a broad class of generally single-celled organisms that includes algae and amoebae, have long been regarded as a "catch-all" category for diverse microorganisms. Because of their diversity ...

The study of microbes that inhabit extreme environments has revealed a great number of phylogenetically novel and metabolically diverse microbial lineages 1. That extreme environments have shed light ...

Protists, microeukaryotes that are not fungi, plants or animals 1, play instrumental roles in global ecosystems where they contribute to nutrient cycling and shape the structure and function of ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with The Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, discovered three previously unrecognised lineages of the protist Bodo, each with ...