Evolution: New Protist Predators under the Sun

Morgan J Colp; John M Archibald

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.029

Evolution: New Protist Predators under the Sun

Curr Biol. 2019 Oct 7;29(19):R936-R938. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.029.

Authors

Morgan J Colp¹, John M Archibald²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Electronic address: john.archibald@dal.ca.

PMID: 31593671
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.029

Abstract

A lineage of predatory, non-photosynthetic protists related to red algae has been discovered, changing the way we think about the biology of the first photosynthetic eukaryotes.

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MeSH terms

Eukaryota*
Rhodophyta*