New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Skiaviridae: a large DNA virus family that persistently infects thraustochytrid protists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by Jessica Latimer et al. #Protists #Viruses #Microbes
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New #ISEPpapers! A review of protistan parasites in and around Norwegian marine fish farms link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #FishFarms
New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! CoMR: an integrative scoring pipeline for Comprehensive Mitochondrial proteome Reconstruction across eukaryotes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #ProtistsOnSky #Mitochondria #Bioinformatics #Evolution #Proteomics #Genomics
New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Single cell #genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Symbiosis #Evolution #Plastids
New #ISEPpapers! An extensive morphological and molecular characterization of the neglected class Odontostomatea (Ciliophora) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes #Ciliates #Evolution #TreeOfLife
New #ISEPpapers! Microbial and metabolic signatures among #Blastocystis subtypes ST1-ST9 in xenic cultures pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Protists #Parasites #Microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Two essential #Thioredoxins mediate apicoplast biogenesis, protein import, and gene expression in #Toxoplasma gondii pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryovorous Predation in Evolutionarily Significant Excavate‐Like Flagellates pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell transcriptomics reveals lateral transfers of multiple functional genes from prokaryotes to free-living ciliated protists in detrital food webs link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Ciliates #Microbes #Evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Prokaryotic communities in particle-associated and free-living environments in Osaka Bay are possibly mediated by the microalga, Heterosigma akashiwo www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9... #Protists #Algae #Bacteria #Microbes #Microalgae #Ecology
New #ISEPpapers! Evolutionary assembly of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis revealed by expanded ciliate diversity academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #Protists #Bacteria #Ciliates #Symbiosis #Evolution #Microbes
New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Bacteria
New #ISEPpapers! Protists as determinants of the #OneHealth framework academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... "One Health connects three main health elements: humans, animals, and the environment. #Protists influence all three"
#ISEPpapers 28: January to June 2026 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap... Your twenty-eighth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here! #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution
#ISEPpapers 28: January to June 2026
Your twenty-eighth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!
isep-protists.com
New #ISEPpapers! The evolutionary transition from alga to parasite in the sister lineage of apicomplexans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Elizabeth Cooney et al. #Protists #Algae #Parasites #Evolution #Microbes
New #ISEPpapers! The spatial #proteome of the #Plasmodium falciparum schizont illuminates the composition and evolutionary trajectories of its organelles www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/1d5b02... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Malaria #Proteomics
New #ISEPpapers! Diversity and evolution of DNA polymerase θ in eukaryotes and the origin of mitochondrion-localized DNA polymerase PolIA in euglenozoa www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Mitochondria
New #ISEPpapers by @deemteam.bsky.social! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from predation to osmotrophy through co-option of bacterial genes and their mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote HGT" #Protists
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Bacteria #Evolution #Symbiosis #Plastids
New #ISEPpapers! CSI-SSU: phylogenetic contamination screening of genomic datasets, demonstrated on The #Protist 10,000 #Genomes (P10K) Project link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Genomics #Evolution #Microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Derlin-like proteins are essential for the function of #Euglena gracilis #chloroplasts: Anežka Konupková et al. academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Colponemidia questions the ancestry of an ATG10-lacking ATG8–ATG12 conjugation system in Alveolata www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jop/... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Alveolata
New #ISEPpapers! Genome Sequence Data Reveal Complex and Variable Ploidy in the Amoebozoan Acanthamoeba castellanii academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #Protists #Microbes #Genomics #Amoeba
New #ISEPpapers! A Revised Understanding of Petalomonad Diversity (Petalomonadida; #Euglenida) Enabled by a Cultivation Approach, With Five New Species and Two New Genera onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Microscopy #Petalomonads
New #ISEPpapers by Kateřina Koštířová et al.! Capturing the extensive diversity of marine anaerobic scuticociliates (Oligohymenophorea, #Ciliophora) through cultivation link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Ciliates #Microbes #Anaerobes
New #ISEPpapers! Seasonality of composition, genomic potential and activity of coniferous forest #soil microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Protists #Microbes #Fungi #Microbiome #SoilScience #Conifers #Genomics
New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomics reveals multiple evolutionary lineages of marine crustacean-infecting gregarine apicomplexans www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Evolution #Phylogenomics #Crustaceans #Apicomplexa #Gregarines
New #ISEPpapers! Complete mitochondrial genomes of the #Prototheca genus: comparative #genomics and evolutionary insights link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Microbes #Evolutions #Parasites #Mitochondria #Algae
New #ISEPpapers! Dynamic stressor regimes drive shifts in biofilm-associated parasites: Annemie Doliwa et al. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Biofilms
New #ISEPpapers! Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Classification of #Barthelonids (Metamonada Incertae Sedis): With Descriptions of Microbarthelona Gen. Nov., and Parabarthelona Gen. Nov. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Protists #Microbes #TreeOfLife #Evolution #Metamonada
