Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

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 ...

sp. and S. terebellae Ray 1930 demonstrate niche partitioning in marine gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa). Protist 165:493-511. Heintzelman, M.B. and Enriquez, M.E. (2010) Myosin diversity in the ...

origin and early evolution of eukaryotes, Protistan biodiversity, phylogenetics and systematics, Protistan ultrastructure, and molecular evolution was born, raised and educated in Sydney, Australia. I ...

Many phytoplankton are microscopic, and they range from single-celled algae to bacteria to protists, which aren’t plants or animals. One thing they all have in common: They require sunlight.

The laboratory exercises are in basic protocols and may include bacterial classification; the structural diversity of protists; reproductive diversity among fungi; invertebrate internal morphology and ...