Protozoa are small, single-celled organisms that live in moist environments, such as ponds, swamps, and soils. They can survive themselves or sometimes live as a parasite inside the plants or animals.

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism, and also shows ...

Mice infected with the common gut parasite Tritrichomonas muris are at an increased risk of developing inflammatory colitis, new research shows. These findings expand the type of gut-resident ...

"All alive in a drop of water" -- "Each its own proper motion" -- Ways of life -- Replication, birth, and death -- Sex : meiosis and mating -- Behavior -- The flagellates -- The rhizopods -- The ...

The discovery of tracks on the sea floor made by a giant single-celled organism could prompt palaeontologists to reassess the origins of animal life on Earth. The tracks, found by biologists on a ...

Two primer pairs were designed to exclusively amplify 18S rRNA sequences from the phylum Apicomplexa and the class Kinetoplastida using a diverse range of sequences from GenBank. As the metabarcoding ...