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Microeukaryotes in animal and plant microbiomes: Ecologies of disease?
Studies of animal and plant microbiomes are burgeoning, but the majority of these focus on bacteria and rarely include microeukaryotes …
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The eukaryome: Diversity and role of microeukaryotic organisms associated with animal hosts
Awareness of the roles that host-associated microbes play in host biology has escalated in recent years. However, microbiome studies …
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A Revised Taxonomy of Diplonemids Including the Eupelagonemidae n. fam. and a Type Species, Eupelagonema oceanica n. gen. & sp.
Recent surveys of marine microbial diversity have identified a previously unrecognized lineage of diplonemid protists as being among …
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A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes
Apicomplexa is a group of obligate intracellular parasites that includes the causative agents of human diseases such as malaria and …
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Assessing the diversity and distribution of apicomplexans in host and free-living environments using high-throughput amplicon data and a phylogenetically informed reference framework
Microcins are low-molecular-weight, ribosomally produced, highly stable, bacterial-inhibitory molecules produced by Enterobacteriaceae. …
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Intracellular Infection of Diverse Diatoms by an Evolutionary Distinct Relative of the Fungi
The Fungi are a diverse kingdom, dominating terrestrial environments and driving important ecologies. Although fungi, and the related …
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Phylogeny, evidence for a cryptic plastid, and distribution of Chytriodinium parasites (Dinophyceae) infecting copepods
Spores of the dinoflagellate Chytriodinium are known to infest copepod eggs causing their lethality. Despite the potential to control …
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Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes
This revision of the classification of eukaryotes follows that of Adl et al., 2012 and retains an emphasis on protists. Changes since …
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Validation of a universal set of primers to study animal -associated microeukaryotic communities
The application of metabarcoding to study animal-associated microeukaryotes has been restricted because standard 18S rRNA primers …
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What Can Environmental Sequences Tell Us About the Distribution of Low-Rank Taxa? The Case of Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), Including a Description of Euplotes enigma sp. nov.
Environmental sequences have become a major source of information. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) surveys have been used to infer …
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