Molecular surveys in planktonic marine systems have unveiled a large novel diversity of small protists. A large part of this diversity belongs to basal heterotrophic stramenopiles and is distributed ...

A unique role of pelagic bacterial communities is their ability to transform dissolved organic material into particulate material making it available to higher trophic levels. Small protists, largely ...

Researchers studied in detail the strange protist Meteora sporadica, which swings its two lateral arms back and forth. The results of the study indicated that M. sporadica has a complex cytoskeleton ...