Hydrogenosomes were discovered in 1973 in trichomonads, a group of unicellular eukaryotes. They were later found in chytridiomycete fungi that inhabit the rumen of cattle, as well as some ciliates ...

According to the first big assessment of the state of the world's fungi, the fungal kingdom is vital to life on Earth. Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are ...

The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is microbial, with plants, animals and fungi representing only three of some 60–200 lineages of eukaryotes. Many of these microbial lineages are understudied, yet the ...

While animals and fungi share a common eukaryotic ancestry, their mechanisms of cell division, particularly mitosis, have diverged significantly, raising intriguing evolutionary questions. Animals ...

All of the usual stuff we think of as “life”—things like trees, fungi, and animals—are eukaryotes, meaning that their cells contain a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi. Size Most are 5 μm ... plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found ...