Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized our knowledge of the eukaryotic tree of life. With
the advent of genomics, a new discipline of phylogenetics has emerged: phylogenomics …

Developing a detailed understanding of how all known forms of life are related to one
another in the tree of life has been a major preoccupation of biology since the idea of tree …

Assembling the global eukaryotic tree of life has long been a major effort of Biology. In
recent years, pushed by the new availability of genome-scale data for microbial eukaryotes …

Across the diversity of life, organisms have evolved different strategies to thrive in hypoxic
environments, and microbial eukaryotes (protists) are no exception. Protists that experience …

The mitochondria have arisen as a consequence of endosymbiosis of an ancestral α-
proteobacterium with a methane-producing archae. The main function of the canonical …

Our understanding of the origin of animals has been transformed by characterizing their
most closely related, unicellular sisters: the choanoflagellates, filastereans, and …

Animals and fungi independently evolved from the protozoan phylum Choanozoa, these
three groups constituting a major branch of the eukaryotic evolutionary tree known as …

Amoebozoa is a key phylum for eukaryote phylogeny and evolutionary history, but its
phylogenetic validity has been questioned since included species are very diverse: amoebo …

Infrakingdom Rhizaria is one of four major subgroups with distinct cell body plans that
comprise eukaryotic kingdom Chromista. Unlike other chromists, Rhizaria are mostly …

The protist phylum Haplosporidia comprises over 40 described species with representatives
infecting a range of mollusc hosts, including several ecologically and economically …