discovered two new species of unicellular organisms in the lakes of Asia. The new organisms have the largest number of nucleotide substitutions among cases known to science, the press service of ...

Now, Wang, Qi and colleagues provide the first report of miRNAs in a unicellular organism, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, casting shadow on previous suggestions that miRNAs might have ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii, a unicellular organism found in Hawaii, first appeared at least one billion years ago and underwent cell division to produce what resembled a precursor to eggs.

perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

The first life forms to appear on Earth were unicellular, i.e., composed of a single cell, such as yeast or bacteria. Later, animals—multicellular organisms—evolved, developing from a single ...