Endosymbiosis between protists and bacteria represents a fundamental biological phenomenon that has shaped the course of eukaryotic evolution. These intimate associations, in which one organism ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

Protists are a diverse, polyphyletic assemblage of predominantly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that do not fit within the traditional kingdoms of animals, plants, or fungi and are therefore used as ...