Whereas conventional approaches to ecosystem structure identify photosynthetic organisms as their foundation components, the largest ecosystem in the biosphere, the dark ocean, is characterized by the ...

Protists, eukaryotic unicellular organisms, play a crucial role in aquatic microbial food webs. Phagotrophic protists or ...

Syracuse University biologists study the mechanisms that have allowed microbial eukaryotes to thrive in the extreme conditions of a geothermal lake. There are an estimated 8.7 million eukaryotic ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on ...