perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Our project will focus on protists: unicellular eukaryotic microbes that are actually quite large — you can see them swimming around under the microscope. Research has been mainly focused on ...

Unicellular protists are sniffing out their dinner: soil bacteria! Here we see Saccamoeba lacustris. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...