In the paper they have now published, they present a comparable organism that they have isolated and characterized from the North Sea: Uabimicrobium helgolandensis. These prokaryotes also feed on ...

The study provides valuable information on how pollutants like manganese sulfate ending up in the aquatic environment can affect aquatic organisms in various ways based on their life-history ...

The team deployed a state-of-the-art holographic camera to examine the many microscopic organisms that inhabit the body of water. Dubbed the weeHoloCam, the technology can produce several thousand ...

The technology is capable of producing several thousand digital holographic images of microscopic marine organisms in one dive. A state-of-the-art holographic camera has been used to look at the ...

While some metamonads, like Monocercomonoides and Giardia, live inside other organisms as parasites or commensals, a new study embarked on a closer analysis of five recently discovered metamonads ...

Chiu, Lynn and Eberl, Gérard 2016. Microorganisms as scaffolds of host individuality: an eco-immunity account of the holobiont. Biology & Philosophy, Vol. 31, Issue ...

Asexual reproduction in some starfish is achieved through fission, meaning the animal actually splits in two and produces two complete organisms. In some cases, starfish will voluntarily break ...