Protozoan predation selects for key symbiotic traits in an environmentally transmitted beneficial symbiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707974v1.full #symbiosis #protists
Widespread symbiosis of ciliate epibionts colonizing gills of shrimps inhabiting vents and seeps across the Pacific Ocean biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.27.708428v1.full #symbiosis #protists
Despite everything, Kricket continues to advance knowledge of this amazing single-celled organism. She has already discovered 3 new species, remarkable because only 13 are described. I would just love to help her get to the Marine Biological Laboratory this summer. #protists #Crowdfunding
@PoLaRobs @shelfyice
May I never stop being amazed at the intersections of geophysical and biological sciences #foramenifera #protists #ice
The Microbiome Within a Microbe: Rethinking Blastocystis Biology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.70056 #protists #microbiome

Discovery of a photophobic response in #Apusomonads reveals insights into Opisthokont origins https://phys.org/news/2026-02-discovery-photophobic-response-apusomonads-reveals.html

New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09209-y

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution

Happy to have contributed to the #protists section of this #ERGA whitepaper 👉 From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.70100
Genetic modification in dinoflagellate algae: Some successes, many failures https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461026000040 #protists
Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2825%2901127-4 #protists
Single-cell phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790326000187 #protists #symbionts