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EukRef: phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution
Environmental sequencing has greatly expanded our knowledge of micro-eukaryotic diversity and ecology by revealing previously unknown …
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Global Diversity and Distribution of Close Relatives of Apicomplexan Parasites
Apicomplexans are a group of obligate intracellular parasites, but their retention of a relict non-photosynthetic plastid reveals that …
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Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity
Although animals are among the best studied organisms, we still lack a full description of their diversity, especially for microscopic …
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EukRef–Ciliophora: A manually curated, phylogeny-based database of small subunit rRNA gene sequences of ciliates
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) surveys, among the most common approaches currently used in environmental microbiology, require …
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High-throughput environmental sequencing reveals high diversity of litter and moss associated protist communities along a gradient of drainage and tree productivity
Although previous studies, mostly based on microscopy analyses of a few groups of protists, have suggested that protists are abundant …
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Identifying protist consumers of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in the surface ocean using stable isotope probing
Photosynthetic picoeukaryotes contribute a significant fraction of primary production in the upper ocean. Micromonas pusilla is an …
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Fish Parasite Dinoflagellates Haidadinium ichthyophilum and Piscinoodinium Share a Recent Common Ancestor
The dinoflagellate Haidadinium ichthyophilum Buckland-Nicks, Reimchen and Garbary 1997 is an ectoparasite of the spine-deficient, …
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Single cell genomics of uncultured marine alveolates shows paraphyly of basal dinoflagellates
Marine alveolates (MALVs) are diverse and widespread early-branching dinoflagellates, but most knowledge of the group comes from a few …
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Pseudotrichonympha leei, Pseudotrichonympha lifesoni, and Pseudotrichonympha pearti, new species of parabasalian flagellates and the description of a rotating subcellular structure
Pseudotrichonympha is a large and structurally complex genus of parabasalian protists that play a key role in the digestion of …
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Molecular characterization and phylogeny of four new species of the genus Trichonympha (Parabasalia, Trichonymphea) from lower termite hindguts
Members of the genus Trichonympha are among the most well-known, recognizable and widely distributed parabasalian symbionts of lower …
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