Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. "We know there are many symbionts in the world, but it ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their diversity essential to understanding eukaryotic evolution.

There really are an extraordinarily large number of weird things that live in the back sides of insects. Just last week I wrote about amoebas shaped like candy canes and boomerangs that live inside ...