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Marine protists are defined by their habitat as protists that live in marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. Life originated as marine single-celled prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) and later evolved into more complex eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are the more developed life forms ...
First Paragraph. Protists are microscopic eukaryotic microbes that are ubiquitous, diverse, and major participants in oceanic food webs and in marine biogeochemical cycles. The study and characterization of protists has a long and distinguished tradition. Even with this history, the extraordinary species diversity and variety of interactions of ...
Apr 23, 2021 · The important role of protists in energy transfer through aquatic food webs has been well established for shallow benthic and pelagic marine ecosystems 12,13, where protists have developed a wide ...
- Alexandra Schoenle, Manon Hohlfeld, Karoline Hermanns, Frédéric Mahé, Colomban de Vargas, Frank Nits...
- 2021
Nov 21, 2016 · Protists are an important part of the marine food web. In this Review, Caronet al. summarize recent insights from transcriptomic studies of cultured and free-living protists and discuss how these ...
- David A. Caron, Harriet Alexander, Andrew E. Allen, Andrew E. Allen, John M. Archibald, John M. Arch...
- 2017
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Apr 6, 2020 · Taxa were selected from multiple eukaryotic supergroups 1,7 to maximize the potential of cellular biology and to evaluate the numerous unigenes with unknown functions found in marine protists (Fig ...
- Drahomíra Faktorová, R. Ellen R. Nisbet, R. Ellen R. Nisbet, José A. Fernández Robledo, Elena Casacu...
- 2020
Brown algae are multicellular marine protists. The largest is the giant kelp, found off the Pacific coast. Red algae can be unicellular or multicellular. All are photosynthetic and live at deeper ...
Marine protists are defined by their habitat as protists that live in marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. Life originated as marine single-celled prokaryotes and later evolved into more complex eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are the more developed life forms known as plants, animals, fungi and protists. Protists are the ...
