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Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the European coast analyzed using high-throughput sequencing
The opisthokonts are one of the major super groups of eukaryotes. It comprises two major clades: (i) Holozoa, which includes Metazoa …
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Molecular diversity and distribution of marine fungi across 130 European environmental samples
Environmental DNA and culture-based analyses have suggested that fungi are present in low diversity in marine sediments relative to …
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Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi
The Opisthokonta are a eukaryotic supergroup divided in two main lineages: animals and related protists (Holozoa) and fungi and related …
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Exploring the uncultured microeukaryote majority in the oceans: reevaluation of ribogroups within stramenopiles
Molecular surveys in planktonic marine systems have unveiled a large novel diversity of small protists (picoeukaryotes, 0.2-3 um). …
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The others: our biased perspective of eukaryotic genomes
Understanding the origin and evolution of the eukaryotic cell and the full diversity of eukaryotes is one of the major challenges in …
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Chalicogloea cavernicola gen. nov. sp. nov.(Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria) from low light aerophytic environments: Combined molecular, phenotypic and ecological criteria
This work characterizes a unicellular cyanobacterium with nearly spherical cells and thin-outlined sheaths forming coherent packets …
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Culturing Bias in Marine Heterotrophic Flagellates Analyzed Through Seawater Enrichment Incubations
The diversity of heterotrophic flagellates is generally based on cultivated strains, on which ultrastructural studies are carried out. …
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Environmental survey meta-analysis reveals hidden diversity among unicellular opisthokonts
The Opisthokonta clade includes Metazoa, Fungi, and several unicellular lineages, such as choanoflagellates, ichthyosporeans, and …
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Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of metazoa
The evolution of metazoans from their unicellular ancestors was one of the most important evolutionary transitions. While previous work …
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Taming the smallest predators of the oceans
Protists (unicellular eukaryotes) arguably account for most eukaryotic diversity and are central players in global biogeochemical …
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