[HTML][HTML] Deconstructing Difflugia: The tangled evolution of lobose testate amoebae shells (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) illustrates the importance of convergent evolution …

R González-Miguéns, M Todorov, Q Blandenier… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protists, the micro-eukaryotes that are neither plants, animals nor fungi build up the greatest
part of eukaryotic diversity on Earth. Yet, their evolutionary histories and patterns are still …

When ecological transitions are not so infrequent: independent colonizations of athalassohaline water bodies by Arcellidae (Arcellinida; Amoebozoa), with …

F Useros, R González-Miguéns… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The salinity and humidity barriers divide biodiversity and strongly influence the distribution of
organisms. Crossing them opens the possibility for organisms to colonize new niches and …

A needle in a haystack: a new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)

R González‐Miguéns, E Cano… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA‐based diversity studies have increased in popularity with the
development of high throughput sequencing technologies. This permits the potential …

Their fates intertwined: diversification patterns of the Asian gliding vertebrates may have been forged by dipterocarp trees

R Chaitanya, JA McGuire… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The repeated evolution of gliding in diverse Asian vertebrate lineages is hypothesized to
have been triggered by the dominance of tall dipterocarp trees in the tropical forests of …

Phylogenomic insights into the historical biogeography, character-state evolution, and species diversification rates of Cypripedioideae (Orchidaceae)

M Liao, JY Zhang, Y Feng, ZX Ren, HN Deng… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cypripedioideae (slipper orchids; Orchidaceae) currently consist of∼ 200 herbaceous
species with a strikingly disjunctive distribution in tropical and temperate regions of both …

The problem of 'shadow species' as illustrated with the taxonomic hotchpotch Cyphoderia ampulla (Rhizaria: Cyphoderiidae)

C Soler-Zamora, F Useros… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accurate species delimitation based on an integrative approach is indispensable for
biodiversity evaluation. Accordingly, species that were formerly only described …

[HTML][HTML] An investigation into the morphological variation and ecological-environmental range of Cyphoderia compressa: A case study of Scottish material

J Buckman, V Krivtsov, AJ Poulton - European Journal of Protistology, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyphoderia compressa has only been described from supralittoral environments, as a
psammobiont, with salinities from 1.33 to 36.00‰. Other Cyphoderia such as those in the C …