Since the Victorian era, categorizing the natural world has challenged scientists. No group has presented a challenge as tricky as the protists, the tiny, complex life forms that are neither plants ...

BEIJING - Chinese scientists recently launched a program to map the genomes of about 10,000 representative species of protists and establish a large-scale database of protist genetic resources. The ...

Molecular surveys in planktonic marine systems have unveiled a large novel diversity of small protists. A large part of this diversity belongs to basal heterotrophic stramenopiles and is distributed ...

ABSTRACT: To assess the contribution of n-3 essential lipids by heterotrophic protists in the pelagic food webs, we examined the kinetics and efficiency of long-chain n-3 essential fatty acid ...

On the dinner plate that is planet Earth, there exists a veritable buffet of viruses — an amount of biomass that is the equivalent of about 25 billion human beings. So perhaps it’s a bit baffling that ...

Researchers have combined mathematical models, marine science, and metagenomics to answer a decades-old question - why are there so many species in the ocean? Ocean plankton are the drifters of the ...

Technology associated with biology has advanced throughout the years, which has allowed the current classification system to be enhanced by using genetic analysis of DNA sequences. There has been ...