Rich community of organisms discovered living on rocks at depths of more than 9km, feeding on organic debris from the surface ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.

Rule-breaking discovery: Researchers found a pond protist that reassigns all three standard genetic stop codons to amino acids, overturning a long-held view of code universality. Why it matters: The ...

Parasitism among marine protists represents a fundamental but often overlooked driver of oceanic food-web structure, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem resilience. Protist parasites, notably within ...

In the crushing darkness of the hadal zone—deep ocean trenches plunging 6,000 m to nearly 11,000 m—scientists have uncovered a hidden community. A study published in Science on May 14 reports the ...

Converting crop straw into stable soil organic matter (SOM) is essential for sustainable farming and climate resilience—but it’s notoriously inefficient in saline-alkaline soils. A recent study ...

The bout of wet weather this spring is doing numbers for the fungi and mold in the Ozarks. The Missouri Department of ...

Dr. Jule Freudenthal von der Arbeitsgruppe Aquatische Ökosystemanalyse der Universität Koblenz wurde für ihre Dissertation „New approaches for investigating microbial food webs across ecosystems“ mit ...

The protist composition differed significantly between dairy components. The ecological findings showed that troughs and lagoons harbored the high diversity of protists, including a possible pathogen, ...