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 …

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Toward the poles, life on land is increasingly dominated by microorganisms, yet the
evolutionary origin of polar microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, we use …

Soil micro-organisms drive the global carbon and nutrient cycles that underlie essential
ecosystem functions. Yet, we are only beginning to grasp the drivers of terrestrial microbial …

Species diversification—the balance between speciation and extinction—is fundamental to
our understanding of how species richness varies in space and time and throughout the …

Protists are probably the most species-rich eukaryotes, yet their systematics are inaccurate,
leading to an underestimation of their actual diversity. Arcellinida (= lobose testate …

There is a significant gap in research and knowledge on the diversity and distribution of
Chilean ciliates. To tackle these issues, we used cultures and protargol preparations to …

Environmental sequencing surveys of soils and freshwaters revealed high abundance and
diversity of the Rhogostomidae, a group of omnivorous thecate amoebae. This is puzzling …

Myxomycetes are terrestrial protists with many presumably cosmopolitan species dispersing
via airborne spores. A truly cosmopolitan species would suffer from outbreeding depression …

The enormous population sizes and wide biogeographical distribution of many microbial
eukaryotes set the expectation of high levels of intraspecific genetic variation. However …