From oral structure to molecular evidence: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of the ciliate order Sessilida (Protista, Ciliophora), with the establishment of …

B Lu, X Hu, A Warren, W Song, Y Yan - Science China Life Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Ciliated protists represent one of the most primitive and diverse lineages of eukaryotes, with
nuclear dimorphism, a distinctive sexual process (conjugation), and extensive genome …

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three Epistylis species found in freshwater habitats in China, including the description of E. foissneri n. sp.(Ciliophora …

T Wu, Y Li, T Zhang, J Hou, C Mu, A Warren… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The peritrich genus Epistylis is speciose, however many species lack complete
morphological description based on modern criteria and/or molecular data. In the present …

[HTML][HTML] Deactivation of internal recirculation in a full-scale Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) reveals outstanding …

H Salvadó, O Canals, B Pérez-Uz, L Arregui… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
The bioindicator potential of the microeukaryotic community in a full-scale A 2 O wastewater
treatment process was assessed after deactivating the internal recirculation in one of the two …

Integrative studies on three epibiotic Epistylis species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) in Lake Weishan Wetland, northern China, including the establishment of a …

T Wu, Y Liu, Y Liu, B Lu, X Cao, S Hao, SA Al-Farraj… - Protist, 2022 - Elsevier
Three epibiotic Epistylis species, ie, Epistylis weishanensis sp. nov., Epistylis daphniae
Fauré-Fremiet, 1905, and Epistylis pygmaeum (Ehrenberg, 1838) Foissner et al., 1999, were …

The morphology, taxonomy, and phylogenetic analyses of five freshwater colonial peritrich ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora), including the descriptions of two new …

T Wu, Z Wang, L Duan, H El-Serehy… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The morphology and phylogeny of two new sessilid species, Zoothamnium weishanicum n.
sp. and Epicarchesium sinense n. sp., two insufficiently known species, Zoothamnium …

Comparative genomics provides insights into the phylogeny and environmental adaptations of Peritrichia (Protista, Ciliophora)–A potential resource for environmental …

Y Zhang, H Dou, Y Fu, F Liang, Z Wang… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Peritrichs are one of the largest groups within the class Oligohymenophorea. They have a
worldwide distribution and a high degree of species diversity. Using the single-cell genome …

[HTML][HTML] Checklist of species in the genus Epistylis (Ciliophora, Peritrichia): the first step for a taxonomic revision

AVD Porto, FDEV Rigo, A Warren, LRP Utz - Zootaxa, 2024 - mapress.com
The subclass Peritrichia includes sessile ciliates that attach to aquatic non-living or living
substrates. In the case of the latter, they live in a relationship called epibiosis. The genus …

On four epibiotic peritrichous ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) found in Lake Weishan Wetland: morphological and molecular data support the establishment of a new …

T Wu, T Cheng, X Cao, Y Jiang… - Marine Life Science & …, 2023 - Springer
During a study on the diversity of ciliated protists in Lake Weishan Wetland, the largest
wetland in northern China, four epibiotic sessilid peritrichs were isolated from aquatic host …

Microeukaryote community in a partial nitritation reactor prior to anammox and an insight into the potential of ciliates as performance bioindicators

O Canals, R Massana, JL Riera, V Balagué… - New biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
An in-depth, long-term, multidisciplinary study was conducted in order to study the
microeukaryote community in a partial nitritation (PN) reactor prior to anammox. The PN …

New record of Epistylis obliqua Sommer, 1951 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) on aquatic mite Unionicola minor (Soar 1900)(Acari, Hydrachnidia).

A Abibulaeva, A Yalin, F Durucan, I Dovgal - Zootaxa, 2023 - europepmc.org
This article deals with the report of a colonial peritrich ciliate species Epistylis obliqua
Sommer, 1951 as epibiont on hydrachnid mite Unionicola minor (Soar 1900) from the …