Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified a pond-dwelling protist that breaks long-held genetic rules by reassigning two standard stop ...

Eating and being eaten is a normal process in nature. These predator–prey dynamics help to stabilize ecosystems. It ensures that individual species do not become too abundant, controls their ...

Climate change is raising surface temperatures of natural waters, increasing concern about pathogenic species in aquatic environments that can infect humans ...