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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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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. However, the analysis of these …
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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 Pacific herring (Clupea …
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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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High-throughput environmental sequencing reveals high diversity of litter and moss associated protist communities along a gradient of drainage and tree productivity
Frequent blooms of phytoplankton occur in coastal upwelling zones creating hotspots of biological productivity. These blooms are often …
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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. These organisms live in the …
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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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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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Marine Protists Are Not Just Big Bacteria
The study of marine microbial ecology has been completely transformed by molecular and genomic data: the number of known organisms has …
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Molecular characterization and phylogeny of four new species of the genus Trichonympha (Parabasalia, Trichonymphea) from lower termite hindguts
In vertebrates, there are four major genes in the RH (Rhesus) gene family, RH, RHAG, RHBG, and RHCG. RH was originally described in …
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