A Reassessment of Phylogenetic Relationships in Class Oligohymenophorea (Protista, Ciliophora) Based on Updated Multigene Data [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionWithin the ciliate class Oligohymenophorea, many evolutionary relationships among taxa remain unresolved. This study incorporates 97 new sequences from 30 oligohymenophorean populations, including nuclear small subunit ribosomal (SSU‐rRNA) genes, nuclear
Bailin Li +7 more
doaj +5 more sources
Further insights into the phylogeny of facultative parasitic ciliates associated with tetrahymenosis (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) based on multigene data [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Tetrahymenosis, caused by about 10 Tetrahymena species, is an emerging problem inflicting a significant economic loss on the aquaculture industry worldwide.
Lihui Liu +5 more
doaj +4 more sources
Identification of a non-canonical ciliate nuclear genetic code where UAA and UAG code for different amino acids. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2023 The genetic code is one of the most highly conserved features across life. Only a few lineages have deviated from the "universal" genetic code. Amongst the few variants of the genetic code reported to date, the codons UAA and UAG virtually always have ...
Jamie McGowan +12 more
doaj +2 more sources
Soil Alveolata diversity in the undisturbed steppe and wheat agrocenoses under different tillage [PDF]
Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2023 Microeukaryotes are vital for maintaining soil quality and ecosystem functioning, however, their communities are less studied than bacterial and fungal ones, especially by high throughput sequencing techniques.
N. B. Naumova +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two freshwater ciliates, with notes on a new species and redescription of a known species (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyThe class Oligohymenophorea comprises a diverse array of ciliates, however, the diversity and phylogeny of freshwater taxa, particularly from inland waters, remain inadequately explored.
Yumeng Song +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
Parasitic taxa are key to the vertical stratification and community variation of pelagic ciliates from the surface to the abyssopelagic zone [PDF]
Environmental MicrobiomeBackground An increase in upper-ocean thermal stratification is being observed worldwide due to global warming. However, how ocean stratification affects the vertical profile of plankton communities remains unclear.
Yuanyuan Wan +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
Microbial predation accelerates granulation and modulates microbial community composition [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2021 Background Bacterial communities are responsible for biological nutrient removal and flocculation in engineered systems such as activated floccular sludge.
Siew Herng Chan +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Somatic genome architecture and molecular evolution are decoupled in "young" linage-specific gene families in ciliates. [PDF]
PLoS OneThe evolution of lineage-specific gene families remains poorly studied across the eukaryotic tree of life, with most analyses focusing on the recent evolution of de novo genes in model species.
Maurer-Alcalá XX +3 more
europepmc +3 more sources
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Like many other aquatic animals, freshwater planarians have also become partners of symbiotic ciliates from the class Oligohymenophorea. In the present study, we explored the hidden diversity and addressed the questionable systematic position of ...
Matej Rataj +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Diversity, 2023 During a field survey of Korean marine and brackish water ciliate diversity, we collected a tiny benthic ciliate (13–18 µm long in vivo) from the opening of a brackish water lagoon (10‰).
Ji Hye Moon, Atef Omar, Jae-Ho Jung
doaj +1 more source