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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.