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 ...

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 ...

Giant viruses acquire genes piecemeal from others, researchers have found. The discovery has implications for bioenergy production and environmental cleanup. The number of microbes in, on, and around ...

The Protist Information Server serves up a plethora of protist (and other microorganism) images. In fact, there are over 81,000 of them on the website, and they represent over 3,000 species. Site ...

Single-cell eukaryotes currently grouped into the phylum Hemimastigophora deserve to be their own supra-kingdom, representing one of only 10 or fewer of the “most distinct branches of the eukaryote ...