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 in Cell Host ...

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Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

The NSF grant, totaling $204,499, will allow Siver to integrate these and other findings into a comprehensive resource for future research, ensuring that critical data on protists remains accessible ...