Protists live in almost any environment that contains liquid water. Many protists such as the algae, are photosynthetic and are vital produces in ecosystems, particulary in the ocean as part of the plankton.
Other protists, such as the kinetoplastids and apicomplexa are responsible for a range of serious human diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness.
Phytophthora infestans causes late blight in potatoes. With the help of spore producing protists such as knealthazia solenopsae the red fire ant populations can be reduced by 53-100%.
Researchers found a way to infect phorid flies with the protist wihtout harming the flies. This is important because the flies act as a vector to infect the ried fir ant population with the pathogenic protist.
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Protists live in almost any environment that contains liquid water. Many protists such as the algae, are photosynthetic and are vital produces in ecosystems, particulary in the ocean as part of the plankton.
Other protists, such as the kinetoplastids and apicomplexa are responsible for a range of serious human diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness.
Phytophthora infestans causes late blight in potatoes. With the help of spore producing protists such as knealthazia solenopsae the red fire ant populations can be reduced by 53-100%.
Researchers found a way to infect phorid flies with the protist wihtout harming the flies. This is important because the flies act as a vector to infect the ried fir ant population with the pathogenic protist.