The new tree of eukaryotes

F Burki, AJ Roger, MW Brown, AGB Simpson - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
For 15 years, the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) has been divided into five to eight major
groupings, known as 'supergroups'. However, the tree has been profoundly rearranged …

Marine protists are not just big bacteria

PJ Keeling, J Del Campo - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
The study of marine microbial ecology has been completely transformed by molecular and
genomic data: after centuries of relative neglect, genomics has revealed the surprising …

Mixotrophic protists and a new paradigm for marine ecology: where does plankton research go now?

KJ Flynn, A Mitra, K Anestis, AA Anschütz… - Journal of Plankton …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Many protist plankton are mixotrophs, combining phototrophy and phagotrophy. Their role in
freshwater and marine ecology has emerged as a major developing feature of plankton …

A phylogenomic framework to study the diversity and evolution of stramenopiles (= heterokonts)

R Derelle, P López-García, H Timpano… - Molecular biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Stramenopiles or heterokonts constitute one of the most speciose and diverse clades of
protists. It includes ecologically important algae (such as diatoms or large multicellular …

Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

G Lax, Y Eglit, L Eme, EM Bertrand, AJ Roger… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Almost all eukaryote life forms have now been placed within one of five to eight supra-
kingdom-level groups using molecular phylogenetics,,–. The 'phylum'Hemimastigophora is …

[HTML][HTML] Designing and interpreting 'multi-omic'experiments that may change our understanding of biology

R Haas, A Zelezniak, J Iacovacci, S Kamrad… - Current Opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Most biological mechanisms involve more than one type of biomolecule, and hence operate
not solely at the level of either genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome or ionome …

New approaches to systematics of Trypanosomatidae: criteria for taxonomic (re) description

J Votýpka, CM d'Avila-Levy, P Grellier, DA Maslov… - Trends in …, 2015 - cell.com
While dixenous trypanosomatids represent one of the most dangerous pathogens for
humans and domestic animals, their monoxenous relatives have frequently become model …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the environmental diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates in the high-throughput DNA sequencing era

CM d'Avila-Levy, C Boucinha, A Kostygov… - Memórias do Instituto …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
The class Kinetoplastea encompasses both free-living and parasitic species from a wide
range of hosts. Several representatives of this group are responsible for severe human …

Ecology of planktonic ciliates in a changing world: concepts, methods, and challenges

T Weisse, DJS Montagnes - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plankton ecologists ultimately focus on forecasting, both applied and environmental
outcomes. We review how appreciating planktonic ciliates has become central to these …

Group-specific functional patterns of mitochondrion-related organelles shed light on their multiple transitions from mitochondria in ciliated protists

Z Chen, J Li, DE Salas-Leiva, M Chen, S Chen… - Marine Life Science & …, 2022 - Springer
Adaptations of ciliates to hypoxic environments have arisen independently several times.
Studies on mitochondrion-related organelle (MRO) metabolisms from distinct anaerobic …