A predatory protist selected and sorted (separated from all other free-living creatures and particles) at sea using patterns of how laser light scatters from the cell and fluorescence staining. Credit ...

These protists are the closest living relatives to the animal kingdom, though they may not seem like it at a quick glance. They propel through the water with a whip (or its flagella) like a ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...