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Novel Predators Reshape Holozoan Phylogeny and Reveal the Presence of a Two-Component Signaling System in the Ancestor of Animals
Our understanding of the origin of animals has been transformed by characterizing their most closely related unicellular relatives: …
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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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Reference Tree and Environmental Sequence Diversity of Labyrinthulomycetes
Labyrinthulomycetes are heterotrophic stramenopiles that are ubiquitous in a wide range of both marine and terrestrial environments. …
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The ‘other’ coral symbiont: Ostreobium diversity and distribution
Ostreobium is an endolithic algal genus thought to be an early-diverging lineage of the Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta). Ostreobium is …
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UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!
Universal taxonomic frameworks have been critical tools to structure the fields of botany, zoology, and microbiology. However, no …
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Variability and host density independence in inductions-based estimates of environmental lysogeny
Temperate bacterial viruses (phages) may enter a symbiosis with their host cell, forming a unit called a lysogen. Lysogens are …
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X-Cells Are Globally Distributed, Genetically Divergent Fish Parasites Related to Perkinsids and Dinoflagellates
X-cells have long been associated with tumor-like formations (xenomas) in marine fish, including many commercially important species. …
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Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages
Environmental molecular surveys targeting protist diversity have unveiled novel and uncultured lineages at all phylogenetic levels and …
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Morphological Identification and Single-Cell Genomics of Marine Diplonemids
Recent global surveys of marine biodiversity have revealed that a group of organisms known as marine diplonemids is among the most …
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Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites
The eukaryotic phylum Apicomplexa encompasses thousands of obligate intracellular parasites of human and animal relevance including …
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