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
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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
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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
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A new marine ciliate, Apofrontonia jejuensis n. sp. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from Jeju Island, South Korea, and an improved diagnosis of the genus Apofrontonia [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 The genus Apofrontonia comprises vicarious species that until now have only been described in a few locations worldwide. It was assigned to the family Frontoniidae based on two diagnostic features, i.e., the closely arranged kinetal rows in the peniculi ...
Pablo Quintela-Alonso +4 more
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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
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Diversity of apostome ciliates, Chromidina spp. (Oligohymenophorea, Opalinopsidae), parasites of cephalopods of the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
Parasite, 2016 Chromidina spp. are enigmatic apostome ciliates (Oligohymenophorea, Opalinopsidae) that parasitise the renal and pancreatic appendages of cephalopods. Only four species have been described, among which only three have been formally named. No DNA sequence
Souidenne Dhikra +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2016 Symbioses between ciliate hosts and prokaryote or unicellular eukaryote symbionts are widespread. Here, we report on a novel ciliate species within the genus Zoothamnium Bory de St.
Lukas Schuster, Monika Bright
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Morphological diversity and molecular phylogeny of five Paramecium bursaria (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) syngens and the identification of their green algal endosymbionts [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Paramecium bursaria is a mixotrophic ciliate species, which is common in stagnant and slow-flowing, nutrient-rich waters. It is usually found living in symbiosis with zoochlorellae (green algae) of the genera Chlorella or Micractinium. We investigated P.
Christian Spanner +4 more
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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
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Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Three Species of Scuticociliates From China: Citrithrix smalli gen. nov., sp. nov., Homalogastra binucleata sp. nov. and Uronema orientalis Pan et al., 2015 (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea), With the Proposal of a New Family, Citrithrixidae fam. nov. [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 The morphology and taxonomy of three scuticociliates found in China, viz. Citrithrix smalli sp. nov., Homalogastra binucleata sp. nov., and Uronema orientalis Pan et al., 2015, were investigated.
Mingjian Liu +12 more
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