Abstract. Plankton, a diverse group of aquatic organisms, make Earth livable, regulate aquatic life, and provide benefits to human societies such as access

Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...

In this study, the authors show that the marine bacterium Alteromonas macleodii exploits the diatom Thalassiosira rotula by triggering programmed necrosis-like cell death. By forcing cells out of their silica shells and lysing them, this interaction may affect ocean carbon cycling.

Using LOPIT-DC-based spatial proteomics, Cadena et al. map the sub-organellar protein landscape of Paulinella chromatophora, a cercozoan with evolutionary-early-stage photosynthetic organelles. They f...

The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies for survival in extreme heat.

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The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Comb jellies are helping answer fundamental questions in biology, from how the earliest nervous systems evolved to how bioluminescence works.

Abstract. Host-microbe relationships are studied across biological disciplines, with unique but overlapping conceptual frameworks arising from each of them

Abstract. Accurate taxonomic assignment of 16S rRNA gene sequences is essential for the reliable interpretation of microbial community studies based on amp

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Interview with Susana Coelho, who uses brown algae to study evolution, development, and life-cycle complexity at the Max Planck Institute for Biology.

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Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

Giant viruses are known across eukaryotes, yet definitive evidence of fungal infection has been missing. This study identifies Mycodnaviridae, a globally distributed family of giant viruses that persi...

Thylakoid membranes are indispensable for oxygenic photosynthesis, yet the mechanisms that protect these membranes from photooxidative damage remai...

Adding iron to the ocean to stimulate carbon-absorbing phytoplankton could have ecological consequences that reach far beyond the intervention site.

This Community Page presents the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, which aims to sequence the genomes and transcriptomes of 100 diatom species across major lineages, life forms and ecological strategies. Th...

Background The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is disrupted by heat stress, leading to bleaching and subsequent coral mortality, devastating reef habitats. Despite its planetary-scal...

Abstract. Symbiont-bearing benthic foraminifera, like corals, rely on endosymbionts for growth and nutrition and experience bleaching under heat stress. So

Abstract. Coccolithophores are major marine phytoplankton that contribute to ocean carbon cycling through both organic carbon fixation and calcium carbonat