ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

For a long time, almost all attention was on the motile cilia because their function was readily observable. But scientists, starting with Alexander Kowalevsky had reported the presence of single ...

Diplomonads are unicellular eukaryotes that have flagella, most of which are parasitic. Diplomonads used to be considered one of the most primitive eukaryotes and some thought that they might have ...

The host that acquired plastids probably possessed two flagella. The nature of the host ... of its intracellular organization (prokaryotic, eukaryotic or intermediate), its age, its biochemical ...

The colonies of what seemed to be close to 100 identical choanoflagellate cells formed a hollow sphere that twirled and spun as each individual cell kicked its flagella. "One of the things that's ...

Brown algae are photosynthetic, multicellular, marine eukaryotes. These organisms have independently ... Male gametes actively swim using two flagella in progressively closer circles around the ...

origin and early evolution of eukaryotes, Protistan biodiversity, phylogenetics and systematics, Protistan ultrastructure, and molecular evolution was born, raised and educated in Sydney, Australia. I ...

So eukaryotic cells, plant cells and animal cells ... the long tail of the sperm cell is called the flagellum, and it only allows the sperm cell to move forwards like a spinning missile towards ...

Understanding the cell biology of a eukaryotic group is crucial for accurately interpreting ecological and molecular information. Despite diplonemid protists being among the most species-diverse ...

On the other side there are the huge and unwieldy eukaryotes, the third great domain of life. A typical single-celled eukaryote, such as an amoeba, is about 15,000 times larger than a bacterium ...

Aeromonas glycosylates its flagellum with the sugar pseudaminic acid ... Interactions of Burkholderia with eukaryotic cells In collaboration with Dr M Thomas (Sheffield) we are using genetic means ...