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Climate change alters the hidden microbial food web in peatlands, study shows

Phys Dot Org 18 Mar 2024
Kilner et al, Temperature and CO2 interactively drive shifts in the compositional and functional structure of peatland protist communities, Global Change Biology (2024).
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Researchers reveal cellular architecture, phylogenetic position of protist Meteora sporadica

Phys Dot Org 31 Jan 2024
It differs from known protists by the presence of two lateral arms that swing back and forth ... Yana Eglit et al, Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora, Current Biology (2024) ... Current Biology.
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How green algae count cell divisions illuminates key step needed for the evolution of multicellular life

Phys Dot Org 13 Nov 2023
The article describing these findings titled, "A Cell-Based Model for Size Control in the Multiple Fission Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii," was published in the journal Current Biology ... Current Biology.
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The unraveling of a protist genome could unlock the mystery of marine viruses

Phys Dot Org 31 Oct 2023
The research is published early online in Current Biology ... Collier et al, The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses, Current Biology (2023) ... Current Biology , Nature.
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Exploring the existence of life at 50°C

Phys Dot Org 25 Sep 2023
To dive further into this topic, scientists in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences' (A&S;'s) Department of Biology are currently investigating protists that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth.
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Giant proteins in a giant cell: Molecular basis behind fastest biological movement in single-celled eukaryotes

Phys Dot Org 22 Feb 2023
Spirostomum, is a genus of millimeter-scale single-celled protists that are known for their incredibly rapid movement similar to Vorticella. They are capable of some of the fastest movement in the biological world due to their ultrafast contraction.
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How protists crack the walls of algae

Phys Dot Org 15 Jun 2022
The article "Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation" in the journal Current Biology now sheds some light on this phenomenon.
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New sequencing technique established for low-biomass, degraded or contaminated microbiome samples

Phys Dot Org 26 Jan 2022
Their study was published in Genome Biology on Jan ... The 'microbiome' is the community of bacteria, fungi, protists and viruses that lives in and on humans, or indeed in any habitat ... Genome Biology.
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Is That a Fossil on Mars? Non-Biological Deposits can Mimic Organic Structures

Universe Today 22 Nov 2021
“Although purely inorganic, the curved and sinuous shapes of the biomorphs evoke biological objects, such as helical and segmented filamentous microbes, protists and even plants and animals,” the authors write.
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