Sally Warring (@sallywarring.bsky.social)

A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates. We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky

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Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Members of genus Bodo are considered the closest free-living relatives to the parasitic ... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.678719v1