protist
- n free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes
- During periods of starvation, Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another.
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- Dangerous strains of E. coli may linger in water
The protist Tetrahymena hunts E. coli in this photo illustration, which features a microscope image of Tetrahymena (left). A new study finds that Shiga toxin may help E. coli survive in the face of such predation.
June 20, 2013 - UB Reporter
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- Neil Campbell in North Island Midweek
If we could trace all animal lineages back to their origin, they would converge on a common ancestor,say Neil A. Campbell and Jane B. Reece in "Biology: Sixth Edition." "That ancestor was most likely a colonial flagellated protist...