Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are organelles that protrude from the surface of cells and are involved in a multitude of biological functions including sensory, motility, and movement of extracellular ...

Protists that live in saltwater or brackish water From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Marine protists are a polyphyletic group of organisms playing major roles in the ecology and biogeochemistry of ...

THERE is a considerable variation in the morphology of the flagella in the lower plant groups and in the flagellates. The flagellar structures have been used as systematic characters since the ...

The number and organization of locomotor organelles differed (chrysophyte - two flagella; haptophyte - two flagella and haponema), the surfaces ... term 'ultrastructural identity' in discussing the ...

Keywords: algae, protist, biodiversity, marine ecology, systematics, taxonomy, phylogenetics, cell biology, physiology, molecular biology Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must ...

This important study describes the discovery of a mechanism by which multiple species of bacteria synthesize and localize polar flagella via a novel protein, FipA, which interacts with FlhF. The ...

Microbiologist Dan Buckley joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about microbiology. What's the fastest known bacteria? Is the zombie fungi from "The Last Of Us" realistic?