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Seasonality regulates the taxonomic and functional compositions of protists responding to climate warming in forest ecosystems

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 2023
Introduction Protists are unicellular eukaryotes including important predators, parasites and phototrophs, and play pivotal roles in organic matter decomposition, biogeochemical nutrient cycling and various ecosystem functions.
Fangfang Li, Anqi Sun, Xiaofei Liu, Peixin Ren, Bing‐Xue Wu, Ju‐Pei Shen, Li Bi, Ji‐Zheng He, Yusheng Yang, Hang‐Wei Hu   +9 more
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Lens eyes in protists [PDF]

Current Biology, 2020
Eyes are not unique to animals. As described by Nilsson and Marshall, prominent eyes, complete with retina and lens, have unexpectedly evolved in single cell dinoflagellates.
Nilsson, Dan-E., Marshall, Justin
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Comparing Microsporidia-targeting primers for environmental DNA sequencing

Parasite, 2023
Metabarcoding is a powerful tool to detect classical, and well-known “long-branch” Microsporidia in environmental samples. Several primer pairs were developed to target these unique microbial parasites, the majority of which remain undetected when using ...
Doliwa Annemie, Grabner Daniel, Sures Bernd, Dunthorn Micah   +3 more
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Molecular Detection and Characterization of Intestinal and Blood Parasites in Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Senegal

Animals, 2021
Wild chimpanzee populations in West Africa (Pan troglodytes verus) have dramatically decreased as a direct consequence of anthropogenic activities and infectious diseases.
Pamela C. Köster, Justinn Renelies-Hamilton, Laia Dotras, Manuel Llana, Celia Vinagre-Izquierdo, Petras Prakas, Donatas Sneideris, Alejandro Dashti, Begoña Bailo, Marta Lanza, Alejandra Jiménez-Mejías, Carlota Muñoz-García, Aly S. Muadica, David González-Barrio, José M. Rubio, Isabel Fuentes, Francisco Ponce-Gordo, Rafael Calero-Bernal, David Carmena   +18 more
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Species- and Trait-Based Reconstructions of the Hydrological Regime in a Tropical Peatland (Central Sumatra, Indonesia) during the Holocene Using Testate Amoebae

Diversity, 2022
Paleoecological reconstructions of hydrological regimes in tropical peatlands during the Holocene are important for the estimation of their responses to changing environments. However, the application of some widely used proxies, such as testate amoebae,
Andrey N. Tsyganov, Elena A. Malysheva, Yuri A. Mazei, K. Anggi Hapsari, Hermann Behling, Supiandi Sabiham, Siria Biagioni, Valentyna Krashevska   +7 more
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Plasmid Transfer in the Ocean – A Case Study from the Roseobacter Group

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Plasmid mediated horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been speculated to be one of the prime mechanisms for the adaptation of roseobacters (Rhodobacteraceae) to their ecological niches in the marine habitat.
Jörn Petersen, Irene Wagner-Döbler
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Microplastics in the menu of Mediterranean zooplankton: Insights from the feeding response of the calanoid copepod Centropages typicus

Marine Ecology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Microplastic input into the ocean represents an increasing threat to marine biota and may endanger the functioning of marine ecosystems, especially in semi‐enclosed basins, such as the Mediterranean Sea. The size spectrum of microplastics overlaps with that of nano‐microplankton (2–200 μm), thus potentially misleading suspension‐feeding ...
Claudia Traboni, Diana Sarno, Maurizio Ribera d'Alcalà, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi   +3 more
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Protists

Trends in Plant Science, 2019
The rhizosphere microbiome is a central determinant of plant performance. Microbiome assembly has traditionally been investigated from a bottom-up perspective, assessing how resources such as root exudates drive microbiome assembly. However, the importance of predation as a driver of microbiome structure has to date largely remained overlooked. Here we
Gao, Zhilei, Karlsson, Ida, Geisen, Stefan, Kowalchuk, George, Jousset, Alexandre   +4 more
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Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past hydrological changes in paleoecological investigations from peatland ...
Katarzyna Marcisz, Vincent E. J. Jassey, Anush Kosakyan, Valentyna Krashevska, Daniel J. G. Lahr, Enrique Lara, Łukasz Lamentowicz, Mariusz Lamentowicz, Andrew Macumber, Andrew Macumber, Yuri Mazei, Yuri Mazei, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Nawaf A. Nasser, R. Timothy Patterson, Helen M. Roe, David Singer, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Bertrand Fournier   +20 more
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Internal Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of Mycetomorpha vancouverensis (Pancrustacea: Rhizocephala), an Enigmatic Parasitic Barnacle

Biology
Mycetomorpha vancouverensis is an enigmatic parasitic barnacle from the family Mycetomorphidae, known for its unclear phylogenetic position within Rhizocephala. Specimens of M.
Aleksei Miroliubov, Anastasia Lianguzova, Darya Krupenko, Liudmila Poliushkevich, Semyon Novokreshchennykh, Natalia Arbuzova, Georgii Kremnev   +6 more
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