Chromerids are a recently discovered group of algae that can be maintained in the laboratory as free-living photoautotrophs. They were first reported in 2008, when Chromera velia was shown to be more ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once 'invisible' fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Sidik et al. used CRISPR–Cas9 to carry out the first genome-wide genetic screen in apicomplexans, intracellular parasites that cause devastating diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. To increase ...