The origin of Metazoa: a unicellular perspective

A Sebé-Pedrós, BM Degnan, I Ruiz-Trillo - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The first animals evolved from an unknown single-celled ancestor in the Precambrian
period. Recently, the identification and characterization of the genomic and cellular traits of …

Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences

T Cavalier-Smith - Protoplasma, 2018 - Springer
In 1981 I established kingdom Chromista, distinguished from Plantae because of its more
complex chloroplast-associated membrane topology and rigid tubular multipartite ciliary …

Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin

D Jirsová, JG Wideman - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Stramenopiles represent a significant proportion of aquatic and terrestrial biota. Most
biologists can name a few, but these are limited to the phototrophic (eg diatoms and kelp) or …

Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics

GA Bravo, A Antonelli, CD Bacon, K Bartoszek… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
ABSTRACT Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring
advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we argue that …

Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria

T Cavalier-Smith, EE Chao, R Lewis - Protoplasma, 2018 - Springer
Infrakingdom Rhizaria is one of four major subgroups with distinct cell body plans that
comprise eukaryotic kingdom Chromista. Unlike other chromists, Rhizaria are mostly …

New barcoded primers for efficient retrieval of cercozoan sequences in high‐throughput environmental diversity surveys, with emphasis on worldwide biological soil …

AM Fiore‐Donno, C Rixen, M Rippin… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the performance of a new metabarcoding approach to investigate the
environmental diversity of a prominent group of widespread unicellular organisms, the …

[图书][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Six-state amino acid recoding is not an effective strategy to offset compositional heterogeneity and saturation in phylogenetic analyses

AM Hernandez, JF Ryan - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Six-state amino acid recoding strategies are commonly applied to combat the effects of
compositional heterogeneity and substitution saturation in phylogenetic analyses. While …

After the boring billion and before the freezing millions: evolutionary patterns and innovations in the Tonian Period

S Xiao, Q Tang - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2018 - portlandpress.com
The Tonian Period (ca. 1000–720 Ma) follows the 'boring billion'in the Mesoproterozoic Era
and precedes 'snowball Earth'glaciations in the Cryogenian Period. It represents a critical …

Atlas of benthic foraminifera from coral reefs of the Raja Ampat Archipelago (Irian Jaya, Indonesia).

M Foerderer, MR Langer - Micropaleontology, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract Raja Ampat (Indonesia) is a remote archipelago west of Papua mainland and
situated at the eastern edge of the Coral Triangle. The archipelago is considered one of the …