Forget snakes and spiders—a new review details venomous plants, fungi, and even bacteria, proving that nature's deadliest ...

Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm used in ...

Among the best-known examples of mutualistic symbioses is that between lower termites and the cellulolytic flagellate protists in their hindguts. Although the symbiosis in worker termites has ...

In the past, this agent has been classified as a slime mould fungus (myxomycete), but more recently, it is regarded as a protist (an organism with plant ... but they can survive in soil for up to 20 ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes.

This study presents an important discovery regarding the diversity and evolution of gall-forming microbial effectors. Supported by convincing computational structural predictions and analyses, the ...

Indeed, the fossil fuels we use to power our world today are the ancient remains of once-living organisms, and they provide a dramatic example of this cycle at work. The carbon cycle would not be ...

Whereas the very first microscopic organisms van Leeuwenhoek set eyes on were sweet water protist, the microecology of the oceans remains largely uncharted — a major knowledge gap given its ...

This method of bacterial genome sequencing could be used to identify antibiotic-resistant strains—for example, in patients with urinary tract infections—or to locate beneficial strains in fecal ...

A scientific breakthrough that could reshape biology as we know it is now at the center of a heated debate. Mirror bacteria, ...