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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Sep 7

New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. www.cell.com/trends/micro...

#protists #algae #microbes #ecology #evolution

illustration of some important traits to include in protist trait databases

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Aug 30

New #ISEPpapers! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives"

#protists #microbes

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Aug 28

New #ISEPpapers! Selective loss of ATP carriers in favour of SLC25A43 orthologues in metamonad #mitochondria adapted to #anaerobiosis: Natalia Janowicz et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Metamonads #Anaerobes #ProtistsOnSky

a figure detailing a proposed evolutionary history of a molecular pathway in eukaryotes

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Aug 28

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Evolution #Bioinformatics #Phylogeny #TreeOfLife

a figure from the linked paper showing a heatmap

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Aug 28

New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates orbit.dtu.dk/en/publicati...

#Protists #Microbes #FluidDynamics #Biophysics

simple models of various microbial cells with diverse configurations of flagella

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jul 25

New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Anna Novák Vanclová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social

#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution #Eukaryotes

a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with presence and absence of various genes mapped on it in the form of white or colorful circles

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jul 17

Rediscovery of the Protist Glissandra: Elucidating the Common Features of the Uncharacterized CRuMs Lineage www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-...

#ISEPpapers by Euki Yazaki et al.: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution

microscopic image of a single-celled organism with two long flagella

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jun 29

New #ISEPpapers! High Protistan Parasite Occurrence During Fall in a Warm, Low Sea Ice Year in the Eastern #BeringSea: Tanika Ladd et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Ecology #ClimateChange #SeaIce

a graph showing relative abundance of various microbial groups during two years

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jun 28

New #ISEPpapers! New T2T assembly of #Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA II annotated with Legacy-Compatible Gene identifiers www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Genome #Sequencing

a figure from a scientific article showing various aspects of a genomic assembly

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jun 28

New #ISEPpapers! Repeated duplications and losses shaped SMC complex evolution from archaeal ancestors to modern eukaryotes: Jolien van Hooff et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution

a complicated figure showing several steps in evolution of a molecular mechanism in microbial cells

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jun 28

New #ISEPpapers! An Update on the Morphology and Phylogeny of the Nanoplanktonic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum nux: Solenn Mordret et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Algae #Plankton

microscopic photos of single-celled algae

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 24

New #ISEPpapers! Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic #Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine #Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two #NewSpecies Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Protists #Microbes #Symbiosis

microscopic pictures of a complicated single-celled organism covered in thin hairs

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

#ISEPpapers 26: October 2024 to March 2025 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap...

Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Bacteria #Archaea #Symbiosis #Parasites

schematic representation of a microbe's life cycle

photos of microbes using various types of microscopy

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... by Corinna Benz et al.

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

a complicated figure summarizing results of the linked paper

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists

a figure from the linked paper that summarizes evolutionary events of gene loss during the evolution of the discussed bacteria

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpaper! Where Is Cryptosporidium Population #Genomics Going Next: The Challenge and the Promise link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

"Forty years have passed since species of #Cryptosporidium, single-cellular protozoan #parasites were first recognized as significant human pathogens"

#protists

a complicated figure summarizing the life cycle of a parasitic microorganism

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpapers! Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... by Julia Packer et al.

#Protists #Microbes #NewSpecies

collage of microscopic photos of single-celled organisms

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... via @isme-microbes.bsky.social

#protists #algae #microbes

a figure from the linked paper showing multiple evolutionary trees of microbes

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 23

New #ISEPpapers! Diplonemid #protists possess exotic endomembrane machinery, impacting models of membrane trafficking in modern and ancient eukaryotes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Kristína Záhonová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Apr 18

New #ISEPpapers! Hijacking and integration of algal #plastids and #mitochondria in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Microbes #Algae #Protists #Symbiosis #Organelles #Plankton

figure from the paper showing various views of the discussed microbial cell

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jan 21

New #ISEPpapers! Comparative Analysis of #Protist Communities in #Oilsands Tailings Using Amplicon Sequencing and #Metagenomics: Kristína Záhonová et al. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @dackslabecb.bsky.social

#Protists #Microbes #Biology #ProtistsOnSky

Map of sampling sites. Map of Alberta, situating Base Mine Lake and expanded view of the inset

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jan 19

New #ISEPpapers! An expanded phylogenomic analysis of #Heterolobosea reveals the deep relationships, non-canonical genetic codes, and cryptic flagellate stages in the group www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Protists #Microbes #Genomics

graphical abstract of the paper showing photos of microbes and an evolutionary tree

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Jan 10

New #ISEPpapers! How marine are Marine #Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

#Protists #Microbes #Biology

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Dec 26

New #ISEPpapers! Long-read DNA #sequencing reveals the organization of the mitochondrial #genome in the early-branching dinoflagellate #Oxyrrhis marina www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Protists #Genomics #Mitochondria #Biology #Microbes #ProtistsOnSky

a figure from the paper mapping various kinds of information on a simplified evolutionary tree of a group of microbes

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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · Dec 22

New #ISEPpapers! Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) & retained for membrane transport genes bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... by @ankarn.bsky.social

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Plastids #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky #Genomics #Evolution #Biology

figure from the paper based on an evolutionary tree of a specific group of microbes

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