The ecology and evolution of amoeba-bacterium interactions

Y Shi, DC Queller, Y Tian, S Zhang, Q Yan… - … and Environmental …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Amoebae are protists that have complicated relationships with bacteria, covering the whole
… We start by discussing the diversity of amoebae and their bacterial partners. We also define …

Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… of testate amoeba morphological and functional traits and trait-environment relationships in
the … community structure, the main variable influencing amoeba diversity was soil moisture. …

Characterization of the bacterial microbiomes of social amoebae and exploration of the roles of host and environment on microbiome composition

E Sallinger, MS Robeson… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… with social amoebae, we used diversity analyses to ask (i) are amoeba microbiomes unique
… created with just our amoeba 18S rRNA sequences to determine relationships between the …

Free-living amoebae and squatters in the wild: ecological and molecular features

A Samba-Louaka, V Delafont, MH Rodier… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… Another targeted metagenomic study, dedicated to analyzing eukaryotic diversity, showed
that amoebae were more abundant in hot water (ca. 37C) than in cold water (7–29C). FLA …

Free‐living amoebas in extreme environments: the true survival in our planet

C Salazar-Ardiles, L Asserella-Rebollo… - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… and differentiation between the diverse species of amoebas [9]. … Of note, a relationship has
been observed between amoebaenvironments, Rodriguez-Zaragosa et al. isolated amoebas

Diversity of testate Amoebae as an indicator of the conservation status of peatlands in Southwest Europe

R Carballeira, X Pontevedra-Pombal - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Testate amoebae are one of the most studied groups of … water and the diversity patterns of
testate amoebae in the western … testate amoeba communities showed an inverse relationship

The Effects of Vegetation and the Environment on Testate Amoeba Assemblages in Sphagnum Peatlands in the Northern Caucasus Mountains

AN Tsyganov, ES Chertoprud, NG Mazei, AS Esaulov… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
… the macro-environmental data. Moreover, the relationships of testate amoebae with bryophytes
… of the testate amoeba assemblages in response to the environmental and biotic data sets …

[HTML][HTML] Testate amoebae taxonomy and trait diversity are coupled along an openness and wetness gradient in pine-dominated Baltic bogs

M Lamentowicz, K Kajukało-Drygalska… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Sphagnum peatlands host a high abundance of protists, especially testate amoebae. Here,
we designed a study to investigate the functional diversity of testate amoebae in relation to …

New insights on the evolutionary relationships between the major lineages of Amoebozoa

YI Tekle, F Wang, FC Wood, OR Anderson… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
… The supergroup Amoebozoa unites a wide diversity of … forms a sister group relationship
with Thecamoebida with full … , did not group with Amoeba proteus and Copromyxa protea …

Environmental free-living amoebae can predate on diverse antibiotic-resistant human pathogens

F Bornier, E Zas, D Potheret, MH Laaberki… - … and Environmental …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Here, we sought to isolate environmental amoebae and to test their predation on diverse
human … growing laboratory amoebae poorly reflect the relationship of human pathogens and …