New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. www.cell.com/trends/micro... #protists #algae #microbes #ecology #evolution

New #ISEPpapers! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives" #protists #microbes

New #ISEPpapers! Selective loss of ATP carriers in favour of SLC25A43 orthologues in metamonad #mitochondria adapted to #anaerobiosis: Natalia Janowicz et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Metamonads #Anaerobes #ProtistsOnSky

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Evolution #Bioinformatics #Phylogeny #TreeOfLife

New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates orbit.dtu.dk/en/publicati... #Protists #Microbes #FluidDynamics #Biophysics

New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Anna Novák Vanclová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social #Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution #Eukaryotes

Rediscovery of the Protist Glissandra: Elucidating the Common Features of the Uncharacterized CRuMs Lineage www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-... #ISEPpapers by Euki Yazaki et al.: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution

New #ISEPpapers! High Protistan Parasite Occurrence During Fall in a Warm, Low Sea Ice Year in the Eastern #BeringSea: Tanika Ladd et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Ecology #ClimateChange #SeaIce

New #ISEPpapers! New T2T assembly of #Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA II annotated with Legacy-Compatible Gene identifiers www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Genome #Sequencing

New #ISEPpapers! Repeated duplications and losses shaped SMC complex evolution from archaeal ancestors to modern eukaryotes: Jolien van Hooff et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution

New #ISEPpapers! An Update on the Morphology and Phylogeny of the Nanoplanktonic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum nux: Solenn Mordret et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Algae #Plankton

New #ISEPpapers! Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic #Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine #Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two #NewSpecies Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Protists #Microbes #Symbiosis

#ISEPpapers 26: October 2024 to March 2025 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap... Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here! #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Bacteria #Archaea #Symbiosis #Parasites

New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... by Corinna Benz et al. #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists

New #ISEPpaper! Where Is Cryptosporidium Population #Genomics Going Next: The Challenge and the Promise link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... "Forty years have passed since species of #Cryptosporidium, single-cellular protozoan #parasites were first recognized as significant human pathogens" #protists

New #ISEPpapers! Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... by Julia Packer et al. #Protists #Microbes #NewSpecies

New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... via @isme-microbes.bsky.social #protists #algae #microbes

New #ISEPpapers! Diplonemid #protists possess exotic endomembrane machinery, impacting models of membrane trafficking in modern and ancient eukaryotes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Kristína Záhonová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social

New #ISEPpapers! Hijacking and integration of algal #plastids and #mitochondria in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. www.cell.com/current-biol... #Microbes #Algae #Protists #Symbiosis #Organelles #Plankton

New #ISEPpapers! Comparative Analysis of #Protist Communities in #Oilsands Tailings Using Amplicon Sequencing and #Metagenomics: Kristína Záhonová et al. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @dackslabecb.bsky.social #Protists #Microbes #Biology #ProtistsOnSky

New #ISEPpapers! An expanded phylogenomic analysis of #Heterolobosea reveals the deep relationships, non-canonical genetic codes, and cryptic flagellate stages in the group www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Protists #Microbes #Genomics

New #ISEPpapers! How marine are Marine #Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation academic.oup.com/femsec/artic... #Protists #Microbes #Biology

New #ISEPpapers! Long-read DNA #sequencing reveals the organization of the mitochondrial #genome in the early-branching dinoflagellate #Oxyrrhis marina www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Protists #Genomics #Mitochondria #Biology #Microbes #ProtistsOnSky

New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology

New #ISEPpapers! The nature of ‘jaws’: a new predatory representative of #Provora and the ultrastructure of nibbling protists royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #Protists #Microbes #Biology #TreeOfLife #Microscopy

It's time to consider the Arcellinida shell as a weapon www.isep-protists.com/post/arcelli... #ISEPpapers by @dumack.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.ej... #protists #amoebae #microbes #biology #predators #fungi #algae #diatoms #microscopy #ProtistsOnSky

New #ISEPpapers! Evolutionary origins of the lysosome-related organelle sorting machinery reveal ancient homology in post-endosome trafficking pathways: Kiran More et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protists #microbes #CellBiology #eukaryogenesis #biology #organelles

New #ISEPpapers! Expanded gene and taxon sampling of #diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle: Monika Wiśniewska et al. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #protists #microbes #parasites #biology #evolution

New #ISEPpapers! Adaptations and metabolic #evolution of myzozoan #protists across diverse lifestyles and environments journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1... #algae #microbes #parasites #biology

New #ISEPpapers! Hidden syndinian and perkinsid infections in dinoflagellate hosts revealed by single-cell transcriptomics academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... by Elizabeth Cooney et al. #protists #algae #symbiosis #microbes #plankton #evolution #biology

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Viral infection to the raphidophycean alga #Heterosigma akashiwo affects both intracellular organic matter composition and dynamics of a coastal prokaryotic community www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #protists #algae #viruses #microbes #biology

New #ISEPpapers! Refurbishing the marine parasitoid order Pirsoniales with newly (re)described marine and freshwater free-living predators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protists #algae #microbes #parasites #evolution #biology

#ISEPpapers 25: July, August, and September 2024 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap... Your twenty-fifth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here! #protists #algae #parasites #microbes #evolution #biology

New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomic diversity of archigregarine apicomplexans royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #protists #parasites #microbes #biology #evolution #gregarines #apicomplexa

New #ISEPpapers! Reductitherus cryptostomus n. gen., n. sp. (Clevelandellida), a remarkable new nyctotherid from an Australian cockroach, Parapanesthia gigantea www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists #ciliates #microbes #NewSpecies #evolution #biology #insects #animals #symbiosis

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Two newly cultivated eukaryotrophic #flagellates represent distinct #anaerobic lineages within Rhizaria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @gawryluk.bsky.social #protists #microbes #rhizaria #evolution #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny #NewSpecies

New #ISEPpapers! Bit by bit toward the diversity of #metopids: Description of the genus Pidimetopus n. gen. (Ciliophora: Armophorea) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #microbes #ciliates #evolution #taxonomy #NewSpecies #microscopy #biology #anaerobic

New #ISEPpapers! Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Shelby Williams, @cstairs.bsky.social et al. #protists #mitochondria #microbes #evolution #biology #genomics #bioinformatics

New #ISEPpapers! Parallel functional reduction in the #mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protists #parasites #microbes #evolution #biology #genomics

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Transcriptome and evolutionary analysis of Pseudotrichomonas keilini, a free-living anaerobic eukaryote www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by Hend Abu-Elmakarem et al. #protists #microbes #evolution #biology #bioinformatics

New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryotic genomes from a global metagenomic data set illuminate trophic modes and biogeography of ocean plankton journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #microbes #protists #algae #biology #ecology #genomics #bioinformatics #plankton #ocean #biogeography #metagenomics

New #ISEPpapers! Redescription and molecular characterization of Loxocephalus luridus Eberhard, 1862 based on Czech populations: Implications for order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #protists #ciliates #microbes #czechia #CzechRepublic #taxonomy #biology

New #ISEPpapers! Updated classification of the phylum Parabasalia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protists #microbes #animals #symbiosis #evolution #biology

New #ISEPpapers! Investigation of heterotrophs reveals new insights in dinoflagellate evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Elizabeth Cooney et al. #microbes #protists #algae #evolution #biology #symbiosis

New #ISEPpapers! Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Kiran More et al. #protists #microbes #organelles #biology #evolution #algae #parasites

#ISEPpapers 24: April, May, and June 2024 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap... Your twenty-fourth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here! #microbes #protists #algae #evolution #symbiosis #biology