Amoeboid protists are extremely abundant and diverse in natural systems where they often
play outstanding ecological roles. They can be found in almost all major eukaryotic …

The amoebae and amoeboid protists form a large and diverse assemblage of eukaryotes
characterized by various types of pseudopodia. For convenience, the traditional morphology …

The Amoebozoa are a large group of eukaryotes originally thought to present basal
eukaryote features and to be a basal branch at the eukaryotic tree. In fact, they are sister to …

The beginning of this century brought spectacular changes in our understanding of
eukaryote phylogeny, especially the early evolution of microeukaryotic lineages commonly …

Protists constitute a paraphyletic taxon since the latter is based on the plesiomorphic
character of unicellularity and does not contain all descendants of the stem species …

Amoebozoa is the eukaryotic supergroup sister to Obazoa, the lineage that contains the
animals and Fungi, as well as their protistan relatives, and the breviate and apusomonad …

Testate amoebae are amoeboid protists inhabiting a test (shell). They occur globally in soils,
wetlands and freshwater, especially peats and mosses. They are of ancient origin, dating …

Testate lobose amoebae (order Arcellinida Kent, 1880) are common in all aquatic and
terrestrial habitats, yet they are one of the last higher taxa of unicellular eukaryotes that has …

Protists, the micro-eukaryotes that are neither plants, animals nor fungi build up the greatest
part of eukaryotic diversity on Earth. Yet, their evolutionary histories and patterns are still …

The last quarter century has seen dramatic changes in our understanding of the
phylogenetic relationships among protist groups and their evolutionary history. This is due in …