Longamoebia is one of the most morphologically diverse member of Amoebozoa. It includes
the human pathogen Acanthamoeba, which causes minor skin and serious eye infections as …

For over a century testate amoebae have been a favoured group of interest for
protistologists, however there is still an endless amount of unanswered questions. The …

We studied the testate amoebae in the moss Hylocomium splendens along an altitudinal
gradient from 1000 to 2200 m asl. in the south-eastern Alps of Italy in relation to micro-and …

Amoebae of the genus Cochliopodium are characterized by a tectum that is a layer of scales
covering the dorsal surface of the cell. A combination of scale structure, morphological …

Monophyly of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa, and subdivision into subphyla Conosa and
Lobosa each with different cytoskeletons, are well established. However early diversification …

To date only five partial and two complete SSU rRNA gene sequences are available for the
lobose testate amoebae (Arcellinida). Consequently, the phylogenetic relationships among …

Elevation gradients have been useful to study distributional patterns of soil organisms since
the time of Humboldt but only recently these patterns have been studied for soil …

Testate amoebae are a polyphyletic group of ubiquitous unicellular eukaryotic micro-
organisms. They occur in high abundances in freshwater and terrestrial habitats, where they …

Testate amoebae are unicellular protists that build a test (shell), in which a single amoeboid
cell is enclosed. They occur worldwide in a range of terrestrial, wetland, freshwater and even …

Environmental DNA‐based diversity studies have increased in popularity with the
development of high throughput sequencing technologies. This permits the potential …