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 ...

A team of pathologists, geneticists, immunologists and engineers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has found a previously unrecognized diversity of protists in the Parabasalia phylum in ...

Soil microbes are essential for soil fertility. However, most studies focus on bacterial and/or fungal communities, while the top-down drivers of this microbiome composition, protists, remain poorly ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic evolution.

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 ...

A survey of more than 2,600 human fecal and tick samples from Hebei Province, China, has detected DNA from Colpodella, a free ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Groove-like tracks on the ocean floor made by giant deep-sea single-celled organisms could lead to new insights into the evolutionary origin of animals, says biologist Mikhail "Misha" ...

Are you looking for activities to teach the weirdest kingdom, PROTISTA? This product might help. There are 3 engaging activities which can be used as solo or together. In activity 1: Students research ...

This resource is a Protist Diseases Activity Worksheet which includes a set of questions and answers designed to enhance students’ understanding of diseases caused by protists, with a focus on malaria ...