Jan 25, 2020
The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists
The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists
Dayana Agudo, lab manager in staff scientist Ben Turner’s soil lab at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Credit: STRI
Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study to characterize protists in soils from…
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