Global DNA Survey Finds Vast Numbers of Protists Still Lack Scientific Names
Nature World News | 12.11.2026 16:56
A global analysis of environmental DNA has uncovered a large gap in what scientists know about protists, a broad group of microscopic organisms that includes many single-celled eukaryotes. The study, published November 10 in Nature Communications, examined more than 30,000 assembled metagenomes and found that most of the protist groups in one analysis had no described organism represented in reference databases.
