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Diversity and Seasonality Dynamics of Ciliate Communities in Four Estuaries of Shenzhen, China (South China Sea)

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
Ciliates are fundamental components of microzooplankton, with important ecological roles. However, ciliate communities are particularly difficult to monitor using conventional morphological approaches.
Chuanqi Jiang, Bin Liu, Jing Zhang, Siyu Gu, Zhencheng Liu, Xueyan Wang, Kai Chen, Jie Xiong, Yishan Lu, Wei Miao   +9 more
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Top-down control of planktonic ciliates by microcrustacean predators is stronger in lakes than in the ocean

Scientific Reports, 2022
Planktonic ciliates are major components of pelagic food webs in both marine and freshwaters. Their population dynamics are controlled ‘bottom-up’ by prey availability and ‘top-down’ by microcrustacean predators.
Xiaoteng Lu, Thomas Weisse
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A strategy for complete telomere-to-telomere assembly of ciliate macronuclear genome using ultra-high coverage Nanopore data

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2021
Ciliates contain two kinds of nuclei: the germline micronucleus (MIC) and the somatic macronucleus (MAC) in a single cell. The MAC usually have fragmented chromosomes.
Guangying Wang, Su Wang, Xiaocui Chai, Jing Zhang, Wentao Yang, Chuanqi Jiang, Kai Chen, Wei Miao, Jie Xiong   +8 more
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Ciliate SSU-rDNA reference alignments and trees for phylogenetic placements of metabarcoding data [PDF]

Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2021
Although ciliates are one of the most dominant microbial eukaryotic groups in many environments, there is a lack of updated global ciliate alignments and reference trees that can be used for phylogenetic placement methods to analyze environmental ...
Ľubomír Rajter, Micah Dunthorn
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Possible Third Step Preventing Conjugation between Different Species of Blepharisma

Microorganisms, 2023
In the genus Blepharisma, reproductive isolation between different species appears to be established at least by two barriers: (1) a mating pheromone, i.e., gamone 1, and (2) a factor involved in pair formation.
Ayu Sugino, Mayumi Kobayashi, Mayumi Sugiura, Terue Harumoto   +3 more
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Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of soil ciliate communities in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Introduction: Soil ciliates, as protozoa, play a crucial role in biogeochemical cycling and the soil food web, yet they are highly sensitive to environmental fluctuations in soil conditions.
Qian Huang, Mingyan Li, Tianshun Li, Shiying Zhu, Zhuangzhuang Wang, Bu Pu   +5 more
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Newly found Tetrahymena nucleoporins, Nup214, Nup153 and Pom121/Pom82, differentiate nuclear pore complexes of functionally distinct nuclei

Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2018
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the sole gateway for molecular transport between the nucleus and the cytoplasm in eukaryotes. The NPC is composed of approximately 30 different kinds of protein components called nucleoporins. The functional structure of
Masaaki Iwamoto, Yasushi Hiraoka, Tokuko Haraguchi   +2 more
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Biogeographic Role of the Kuroshio Current Intrusion in the Microzooplankton Community in the Boundary Zone of the Northern South China Sea

Microorganisms, 2021
Kuroshio Current intrusion (KCI) has significant impacts on the oceanographic conditions and ecological processes of the Pacific-Asian marginal seas. Little is known to which extent and how, specifically, the microzooplankton community can be influenced ...
Ping Sun, Silu Zhang, Ying Wang, Bangqin Huang   +3 more
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The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
Symbioses between chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing (thiotrophic) bacteria and protists or animals are among the most diverse and prevalent in the ocean. They are extremely difficult to maintain in aquaria and no thiotrophic symbiosis involving an animal
Monika eBright, Salvador eEspada-Hinojosa, Ilias eLagkouvardos, Jean-Marie eVolland   +3 more
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Genome-wide identification of ATP-binding cassette transporter B subfamily, focusing on its structure, evolution and rearrangement in ciliates

Open Biology, 2023
ATP-binding cassette subfamily B (ABCB) has been implicated in various essential functions such as multidrug resistance, auxin transport and heavy metal tolerance in animals and plants.
Xue Zhang, Yan Zhao, Weibo Zheng, Bei Nan, Jinyu Fu, Yu Qiao, Rebecca A. Zufall, Feng Gao, Ying Yan   +8 more
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