Contributed by Edward A. D. Mitchell Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Testate amoebae are well known to be good indicators of micro-environmental gradients and especially soil moisture, water table depth and pH. This has been known since the early 20th century (Harnisch, 1925). The predictable distribution patterns of many species not […]
Now here is something you don’t see everyday. In fact, I am pretty sure this has never been done before. Ildiko Szelecz and colleagues set out to answer a question that very few of you must have already pondered: could testate amoebae be used in forensic studies? This should in fact be a very
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If you are lucky enough to know a protistologist, you have certainly heard her (or him) utter the statement: “not much is known about protist _________”, where the blank can be filled with your choice of a biological subject, such as “meiosis”, “ecology”, “paleontology”, and many others. The statement gets staggeringly truthful when the blank
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