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Protists are a diverse collection of organisms that do not fit into animal, plant, bacteria or fungi groups. While exceptions exist, they are primarily microscopic and made up of a single cell ...

Bacterivory by planktonic plastidic, phototrophic protists (algae) and aplastidic, heterotrophic protists <5 μm in size was compared in 13 experiments using samples collected from the depths of ...

Yali Tang, Xiaoqin Yang, Ruohua Xu, Xiufeng Zhang, Zhengwen Liu, Yongdong Zhang, Henri J. Dumont, Heterotrophic microbes upgrade food value of a terrestrial carbon resource for Daphnia magna, ...

Sarah DeVaul Princiotta, Robert W. Sanders, Heterotrophic and mixotrophic nanoflagellates in a mesotrophic lake, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2017), pp. 632-644 ...

The most common groups of soil protists behave exactly like Pac-Man: moving through the soil matrix, gobbling up bacteria according to a new article.