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 ...
Previous research had revealed eight new ancestral lineages of Thecamoebae, the largest group in Amoebozoa, a clade (a common ancestor and all its descendants) of protozoans with pseudopodia ...
Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.