perkinsii, an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Ancoracysta is a protist, a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit at the root of the eukaryotic tree of life. For researchers such as Janouškovec, they are an ... After a year teaching ...

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 ...