Protists show high resilience and thrive under multiple chemical stressors
Jijuan Ding, Fei Liu, Yuanchen Zhao, Zhili He, Yijing Shi, Longfei Shu · 2026
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Jijuan Ding and co-authors report that tiny protists hold steady under chemical stress in wastewater sludge in a 2026 study. Using DNA profiling, they tracked protists under an antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, an antibacterial agent, triclosan, and copper ions, alone and combined. Protists are often ignored next to bacteria in treatment systems.
Protists kept a stable share of the community, between 6.35 percent and 7.88 percent relative to bacteria in the reported range, with hunter types most common, and copper even raised their numbers. The antibiotic alone changed little, and stress strengthened mostly friendly links between protists and bacteria. Their toughness may help whole treatment communities ride out pollution shocks.
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| CREATOR | Jijuan Ding, Fei Liu, Yuanchen Zhao, Zhili He, Yijing Shi, Longfei Shu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18955 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |