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 ...

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

Essential functions for life that range from swimming in single cell protists to mucus clearance in humans require the generation of long range flows with a specific topology. To generate these large ...

This is a mixture of multicellular organisms -- small zooplanktonic animals, larvae and single cell protists (diatoms, dinoflagellates, radiolarians). This material relates to papers that appeared ...