Gromia sphaerica is a large spherical testate amoeba, a single-celled eukaryotic organism and the largest of its genus, Gromia. The genus itself contains about 13 known species, 3 of which …

A recent study of the deep-sea species Gromia sphaerica revealed that it produces traces on the seafloor which resemble fossil traces formerly attributed to early Bilateria (animals with …

Nov 20, 2008 · Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. A distant relative of …

Gromia sphaerica is a large spherical testate amoeba, a single-celled eukaryotic organism and the largest of its genus, Gromia. The genus itself contains about ...

Mar 28, 2009 · The giant deep sea protist, Gromia sphaerica, approaches three large cup corals growing on a half-buried sea urchin. (Image credit: Mikhail Matz, the University of Texas at …

Jan 1, 2000 · Here we describe large spherical protists, up to almost 40 mm diameter, recovered in box core, multicore, and epibenthic sledge samples taken on the continental slope off Oman …

Nov 20, 2008 · DNA analysis confirmed that the giant protist found by Matz and his colleagues in the Bahamas is Gromia sphaerica, a species previously known only from the Arabian Sea. …

Oct 21, 2022 · The Gromia sphaerica organism can grow up to 38 millimeters in size. This unicellular creature is a recent discovery, only found for the first time in 2000. These are …

Nov 22, 2008 · A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea.

Dec 9, 2008 · Our observations of the Bahamian Gromia sphaerica make it tempting to revisit the controversy surrounding the enigmatic Ediacaran biota that dominated the shallow-water …