Biofilms, the complex communities of microbiota that live in association with aquatic
interfaces, are considered to be hotspots of microbial life in many aquatic ecosystems …

The high numbers and diversity of protists in soil systems have long been presumed, but
their true diversity and community composition have remained largely concealed. Traditional …

Protists are perhaps the most lineage-rich of microbial lifeforms, but remain largely
unknown. High-throughput sequencing technologies provide opportunities to screen whole …

Dispersal potential of organisms is directly related to the hydrological connectivity among
habitats. We investigated if the relative role of the environmental and spatial components in …

A wide diversity of organisms utilize faecal habitats as a rich nutrient source or a mechanism
to traverse through animal hosts. We sequenced the 18S rRNA genes of the coprophilic …

The evolutionary and ecological importance of predatory flagellates are too often
overlooked. This is not only a gap in our understanding of microbial diversity, but also …

Heterotrophic flagellates (HF) play an essential function in the microbial food loops as it is
an agent of biochemical cycling of limiting nutrients and being a useful bio-indicator of …

Alveolates are a major supergroup of eukaryotes encompassing more than ten thousand
free-living and parasitic species, including medically, ecologically, and economically …

The composition and distribution of the main unicellular eukaryotic groups (diatom algae,
ciliates, dinoflagellates (DF), other phototrophic (PF) and heterotrophic flagellates (HF)) …

ABSTRACT The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is a globally significant biodiversity hotspot
with substantial undescribed biota, particularly blood-borne parasites of endemic wildlife …