Most protists are inconspicuous single cells, but they comprise the vast bulk of eukaryote biodiversity. They are therefore key to understanding the course of eukaryotic evolution and are of huge ...

Evolution happens through natural selection ... and the eukaryotes (animals, plants, fungi, and protists)—have discovered about 500 genes that all living things share. These "immortal" genes ...

This year Nobel Prize results signify that artificial intelligence (AI) technology is not only leading trends in computer ...

Students in Program in Ecology and Evolution study a diverse set of ecological questions ... In addition to modeling, I am also using protist microcosms to predict how certain communities may respond ...

Protist 156, 425–432 (2005 ... The origin of red algae and the evolution of chloroplasts. Nature 405, 69–72 (2000) doi:10.1038/35011054. Palmer, J. D. The symbiotic birth and spread of ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire ...

These are mitochondria of several distantly related unicellular eukaryotes (protists) that lack an electron ... Mitochondria arose once in evolution, and their origin entailed an endosymbiosis ...

The Clash Royale card evolution update was released on June 19, 2023, revolutionizing the game by upgrading standard cards to higher levels. Initially, only four evolved cards were available ...

But are we on the way to redefining how we evolve? Does evolution now mean not just the slow grind of natural selection spreading desirable genes, but also everything that we can do to amplify our ...

Xu Jianguo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the success of LucaProt marks a breakthrough for ...