The scans of the pterosaur coprolites revealed many microscopic food remains including foraminifera (small amoeboid
protists with external shells), small shells of marine invertebrates and possible remains of polychaete worms.
Among
protists, testate amoebae represent a common diverse and abundant component of both aquatic and terrestrial habitats, playing a vital role in ecosystem functioning.
Zarruk Biological Station, in Santa Maura Hacienda managed by the university, which has shown exceptionally high diversity and abundance of species, including some of undetermined genus of which some are
Protists.
The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of
protists. J Eukaryot Microbiol 2005;52:399451.
Joshua Lederberg, PhD, gave meaning to the term "microbiome" in 2001 as the "ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space." (1) This community of microorganisms comprises bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea, and
protists.
In animals and
protists bioaccumulation of heavy metals is based on glutathione and metallothioneins (MTs) (Binz and Kagi, 1999).
These compounds can be used to produce mosquito larvicide (Ali et al., 2013; Bianco et al., 2013), spermicidal compounds (Prakash et al., 2014), and biologics for killing ciliate
protists (Ricci et al., 1999).
Each of us is inhabited by unique populations of tiny organisms--bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea,
protists and mites--that consider our bodies home.
Thraustochytrids are marine
protists, whose dominant genera are Thraustochytrium, Aurantiochytrium and Schizochytrium and belong to the kingdom Chromista (16).