A needle in a haystack: a new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)

R González‐Miguéns, E Cano… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA‐based diversity studies have increased in popularity with the
development of high throughput sequencing technologies. This permits the potential …

Can Colpoda travel across oceans? Salinity tolerance of resting cysts may enable global dispersal of the species.

R Saito, H Yamanobe, K Yabuki, T Suzuki, T Saito… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Protist species are distributed worldwide. The processes that enabled this global distribution
are unclear. One possible means is through the oceanic dispersal of freshwater protists …

Inferring northern peatland methane emissions from testate amoebae: A proof of concept study

A Frésard, M Mulot, G Bertrand, A Lhosmot, L Gandois… - 2023 - jukuri.luke.fi
Peatlands are efficient carbon sinks due to waterlogged soils causing oxygen depletion and
slowing organic matter decomposition, leading to peat accumulation. However, peatlands …

[PDF][PDF] A new level of confidence: biogeography, morphometry and ecology of enigmatic Cyclopyxis puteus Thomas, 1960 (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Netzeliidae)

N Bankov - Historia naturalis bulgarica - researchgate.net
Testate amoebae Cyclopyxis puteus Thomas (1960) has a characteristic morphology, that
makes the possibility of overlook or misidentification unlikely. Although this species has …