Ciliates are a highly divergent group of unicellular eukaryotes with separate somatic and
germline genomes found in distinct dimorphic nuclei. This characteristic feature is tightly …

Despite their diversity and ecological importance, many areas of the SAR—Stramenopila,
Alveolata, and Rhizaria—clade are poorly understood as the majority (90%) of SAR species …

As a model organism for studies of cell and environmental biology, the free‐living and
cosmopolitan ciliate Euplotes vannus shows intriguing features like dual genome …

Ciliates, a eukaryotic clade that is over 1 billion years old, are defined by division of genome
function between transcriptionally inactive germline micronuclei and functional somatic …

Ciliates are a large group of ubiquitous and highly diverse single‐celled eukaryotes that
play an essential role in the functioning of microbial food webs. However, their genomic …

The class Karyorelictea, a unique assemblage of ciliates, is a key group in deciphering
ciliate evolution history. However, the systematic relationships among members of this class …

The emergence of robust single-cell 'omics techniques enables studies of uncultivable
species, allowing for the (re) discovery of diverse genomic features. In this study, we …

Ciliates are microbial eukaryotes that undergo extensive programmed genome
rearrangement, a natural genome editing process that converts long germline chromosomes …

Scientists have discovered many ways to treat bacteria, viruses, and parasites in
aquaculture; however, there is still an impossibility in finding a permanent solution for all …

Ciliates represent a morphologically and genetically distinct group of single-celled
eukaryotes that segregate germline and somatic functions into two types of nuclei and …