scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean's upper layer. Some of these symbionts, they discovered, are close relatives of bacteria pathogenic ...

Schematic evolutionary tree of the 5 microbial species included in the study. From left to right: Trimastix marina, Paratrimastix pyriformis, Blattamonas nauphoetae, Streblomastix strix, and ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hanliang “Han” Guo, Ph.D., is the co-author of newly published research that “potentially provides fundamental insights of early evolution of multicellular organization.” ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.