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 ...

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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 ... mixotrophic protists ...

Among the large cast of microbiome players, bacteria have been hogging the spotlight. But the single-celled organisms known as protists are finally getting the starring role they deserve.

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.

However, a new study by Lukáš Novák and Vladimír Hampl of Charles University, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, finds that multiple members of the oxymonads, a group of single-celled ...