Ecology of planktonic ciliates in a changing world: Concepts, methods, and challenges [PDF]
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2021 Plankton ecologists ultimately focus on forecasting, both applied and environmental outcomes. We review how appreciating planktonic ciliates has become central to these predictions. We explore the 350‐year‐old canon on planktonic ciliates and examine its
Thomas Weisse, D. J. S. Montagnes
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Novel insights into the genetic diversity of Balantidium and Balantidium-like cyst-forming ciliates [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013 Balantidiasis is considered a neglected zoonotic disease with pigs serving as reservoir hosts. However, Balantidium coli has been recorded in many other mammalian species, including primates. Here, we evaluated the genetic diversity of B.
Grim, J Norman +9 more
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Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2013 Research using ciliates revealed early examples of epigenetic phenomena and continues to provide novel findings. These protozoans maintain separate germline and somatic nuclei that carry transcriptionally silent and active genomes, respectively. Examining the differences in chromatin within distinct nuclei of Tetrahymena identified histone variants and
Douglas L. Chalker +2 more
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Twisted Tales: Insights into Genome Diversity of Ciliates Using Single-Cell 'Omics. [PDF]
Genome Biology and Evolution, 2018 The emergence of robust single-cell 'omics techniques enables studies of uncultivable species, allowing for the (re)discovery of diverse genomic features.
Katz, Laura A +4 more
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Morphological and molecular analyses of season-specific responses of freshwater ciliate communities to top-down and bottom-up experimental manipulations [PDF]
mSystemsIn aquatic microbial food webs, ciliates represent an important trophic link in the energy transfer from prokaryotes, algae, and heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNFs) to higher trophic levels. However, the trophic role of abundant small ciliates (
Usman Asghar +9 more
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Single-cell genomics reveals complex microbial and viral associations in ciliates and testate amoebae. [PDF]
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Prevalence of partnerships between bacteria and ciliates in oxygen-depleted marine water columns
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2012 Symbioses between Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya in deep-sea marine environments represent a means for eukaryotes to exploit otherwise inhospitable habitats.
William D Orsi +4 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Ciliates represent higher unicellular animals, and several species are also important model organisms for molecular biology research. Analyses of codon usage bias (CUB) of the macronuclear (MAC) genome in ciliates can not only promote a better ...
Ying Wang +8 more
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Prevalent ciliate symbiosis on copepods: high genetic diversity and wide distribution detected using small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Toward understanding the genetic diversity and distribution of copepod-associated symbiotic ciliates and the evolutionary relationships with their hosts in the marine environment, we developed a small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (18S rDNA)-based molecular
Zhiling Guo +7 more
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Microorganisms, 2022 Ciliates are a group of phagotrophic protists found in a wide variety of ecosystems. This study builds on recent studies of ciliates in the Krka river and investigates changes in the phylogenetic and functional diversity of ciliates in biofilm to predict
Vesna Gulin Beljak +9 more
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