Chromerids are a recently discovered group of algae that can be maintained in the laboratory as free-living photoautotrophs. They were first reported in 2008, when Chromera velia was shown to be more ...

Gregarine apicomplexans represent a diverse group of unicellular parasitic protists that primarily infect invertebrates across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Their wide-ranging ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once 'invisible' fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Around 10,000 years ago, a parasite made a huge leap and found its way to a new host: Us. Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from ...