Background The predominance of sex in eukaryotes, despite the high costs of meiosis and
mating, remains an evolutionary enigma. Many theories have been proposed, none of them …

Free-living amoeba (FLA) group includes the potentially pathogenic genera Acanthamoeba,
Naegleria, Balamuthia, Sappinia, and Vermamoeba, causative agents of human infections …

Trichoderma reesei is an economically important enzyme producer with several unique
meiotic features. spo11, the initiator of meiotic double-strand breaks (DSBs) in most sexual …

Perkinsus spp. parasites have significant impact on aquaculture and wild mollusc
populations. We sequenced the genomes of five monoclonal isolates of Perkinsus olseni …

Obligate parthenogenesis (OP) is often thought to evolve by disruption of reductional
meiosis and suppression of crossover recombination. In the crustacean Daphnia pulex, OP …

The Protist kingdom individuals are the most ancestral representatives of eukaryotes. They
have inhabited Earth since ancient times and are currently found in the most diverse …

Due to frequent variations in environmental conditions, free-living amoebae adapt through
differentiation into different states. Hence, favorable conditions enable the formation of a …

Genome sequencing and assembly of the photosynthetic picoeukaryotic Picochlorum sp.
SENEW3 revealed a compact genome with a reduced gene set, few repetitive sequences …

Leishmania parasites are a group of kinetoplastid pathogens that cause a variety of clinical
disorders while maintaining cell communication by secreting extracellular vesicles …

Leishmania parasites are a group of kinetoplastid pathogens that cause a variety of clinical
disorders while maintaining cell communication by secreting extracellular vesicles …