Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

A decade after environmental scientists integrated high‐throughput sequencing
technologies in their toolbox, the genomics‐based monitoring of anthropogenic impacts on …

Background The phytoplankton spring bloom in freshwater habitats is a complex, recurring,
and dynamic ecological spectacle that unfolds at multiple biological scales. Although …

During the last decade, high‐throughput metabarcoding became routine for analyzing
protistan diversity and distributions in nature. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

High-throughput sequencing of a targeted genetic marker is being widely used to analyze
biodiversity across taxa and environments. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

Plankton ecologists ultimately focus on forecasting, both applied and environmental
outcomes. We review how appreciating planktonic ciliates has become central to these …

Microscopic organisms are the dominant and most diverse organisms on Earth. Nematodes,
as part of this microscopic diversity, are by far the most abundant animals and their diversity …

Phagotrophic protists are key players in aquatic food webs. Although sequencing-based
studies have revealed their enormous diversity, ecological information on in situ abundance …

Ciliates are unicellular heterotrophic organisms that play a key role in aquatic planktonic
and benthic food webs. Advances in sedimentary DNA (sed-DNA) analysis offer the …