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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! Genome Sequence Data Reveal Complex and Variable Ploidy in the Amoebozoan Acanthamoeba castellanii academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
#Protists #Microbes #Genomics #Amoeba
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! 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 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! 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 @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! 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