A predatory protist selected and sorted (separated from all other free-living creatures and particles) at sea using patterns of how laser light scatters from the cell and fluorescence staining. Credit: Camille Poirier and David Needham, Worden Lab
Symbiotic bacteria ride along with marine cells in ocean’s upper layer
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week,…