Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Heterotrophic Protists (Cercozoa and Endomyxa) from Biological Soil Crusts [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) accommodate diverse communities of phototrophic and heterotrophic microorganisms. Heterotrophic protists have critical roles in the microbial food webs of soils, with Cercozoa and Endomyxa often being dominant groups ...
Samira Khanipour Roshan +2 more
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Contrasting Responses of Protistan Plant Parasites and Phagotrophs to Ecosystems, Land Management and Soil Properties [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Functional traits are increasingly used in ecology to link the structure of microbial communities to ecosystem processes. We investigated two important protistan lineages, Cercozoa and Endomyxa (Rhizaria) in soil using Illumina sequencing and analyzed ...
Anna Maria Fiore-Donno +2 more
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Comparative genomics of Ascetosporea gives new insight into the evolutionary basis for animal parasitism in Rhizaria [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Ascetosporea (Endomyxa, Rhizaria) is a group of unicellular parasites infecting aquatic invertebrates. They are increasingly being recognized as widespread and important in marine environments, causing large annual losses in invertebrate ...
Fabien Bürki +2 more
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On the phenology of protists: recurrent patterns reveal seasonal variation of protistan (Rhizaria: Cercozoa and Endomyxa) communities in tree canopies [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2021 Tree canopies are colonized by billions of highly specialized microorganisms that are well adapted to the extreme microclimatic conditions, caused by diurnal fluctuations and seasonal changes.
Susanne Walden +2 more
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Long amplicons as a tool to identify variable regions of ribosomal RNA for improved taxonomic resolution and diagnostic assay design in microeukaryotes: using ascetosporea as a case study [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionThere is no universally appropriate basis for delimiting species in protists, including parasites. Many molecular markers used for species delimitation are part of the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) array, with different regions of the array being used
Chantelle Hooper +11 more
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Dinopallor Comventus n. gen., n. sp., a Novel Parasitoid of Marine Dinoflagellates Representing a Sister Lineage to Seagrass Parasites and Expanding the Host Range of Phytomyxea (Rhizaria, Endomyxa) [PDF]
Microbial EcologyPhytomyxea (SAR: Rhizaria: Endomyxa) is a group of obligate biotrophic parasitic protists comprised of two orders: Plasmodiophorida, found in terrestrial or freshwater environments, and Phagomyxida, found in marine environments.
Boo Seong Jeon, Myung Gil Park
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Protist diversity and community assembly in surface sediments of the South China Sea [PDF]
MicrobiologyOpen, 2019 Protists are pivotal components of marine ecosystems in terms of their high diversity, but protist communities have been poorly explored in benthic environments.
Wenxue Wu, Bangqin Huang
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Shedding Light on Vampires: The Phylogeny of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 With the advent of molecular phylogenetic techniques the polyphyly of naked filose amoebae has been proven. They are interspersed in several supergroups of eukaryotes and most of them already found their place within the tree of life.
Sebastian Heß, Michael Melkonian
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Xenophyophore-associated mitogenomes: genomic investigations of two specimens from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine ScienceIntroductionXenophyophores are large benthic agglutinated Foraminifera that are a major component of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone megafauna.MethodsTwo xenophyophore specimens were obtained and submitted to genomic investigations.ResultsFor both specimens,
Romain Gastineau +13 more
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Rhizarian 'Novel Clade 10' Revealed as Abundant and Diverse Planktonic and Terrestrial Flagellates, including Aquavolon n. gen. [PDF]
J Eukaryot Microbiol, 2018 0000-0002-6719-5565The file attached is the Published/publisher’s pdf version of the articleThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium ...
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