The Hidden World of Rickettsiales Symbionts: “Candidatus Spectririckettsia obscura,” a Novel Bacterium Found in Brazilian and Indian Paramecium caudatum

Cultivation Conditions Can Cause a Shift from Mutualistic to Parasitic Behavior in the Symbiosis Between Paramecium and Its Bacterial Symbiont Caedibacter taeniospiralis

(2018) Maria Giovanna Schu et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Host and symbiont intraspecific variability: The case of Paramecium calkinsi and “ Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis”

(2018) E. Sabaneyeva et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

The Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”: Insights on Reductive Evolution in Rickettsiales

(2018) Anna M Floriano et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A gene transfer event suggests a long-term partnership between eustigmatophyte algae and a novel lineage of endosymbiotic bacteria

(2018) Tatiana Yurchenko et al.   ISME Journal

Bacteriocyte cell death in the pea aphid/Buchnerasymbiotic system

(2018) Pierre Simonet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait

(2018) Martina Schrallhammer et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa

(2017) Aharon Oren   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Microbiota Associated with the Glacier Ice Worm Is Dominated by Both Worm-Specific and Glacier-Derived Facultative Lineages

(2017) Takumi Murakami et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Description of Hyalodiscus flabellus sp. nov. (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) and Identification of its Bacterial Endosymbiont, “ Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila” ( Rickettsiales , Alphaproteobacteria )

(2017) Sebastian Hess   PROTIST

Diversity and Universality of Endosymbiotic Rickettsia in the Fish Parasite Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

(2017) Kassandra E. Zaila et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts (“Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis” and “Candidatus Fokinia cryptica”) Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia

(2016) Franziska Szokoli et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic conservation of freshwater lake habitat preference varies between abundant bacterioplankton phyla

(2016) Marian L. Schmidt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rickettsial endosymbiont in the “early-diverging” streptophyte green algaMesostigma viride

(2016) Ashley Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Protist-Bacteria Associations: Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria Are Prevalent as Digestion-Resistant Bacteria in Ciliated Protozoa

(2016) Jun Gong et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase

(2016) Chiara Bella et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

“Candidatus Gortzia shahrazadis”, a Novel Endosymbiont of Paramecium multimicronucleatum and a Revision of the Biogeographical Distribution of Holospora-Like Bacteria

(2016) Valentina Serra et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Archaeal and Bacterial Communities Associated with the Surface Mucus of Caribbean Corals Differ in Their Degree of Host Specificity and Community Turnover Over Reefs

(2016) Pedro R. Frade et al.   PLoS One

“Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”, a Novel “Stand-Alone” Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales)

(2016) Franziska Szokoli et al.   PLoS One

Rare Freshwater Ciliate Paramecium chlorelligerum Kahl, 1935 and Its Macronuclear Symbiotic Bacterium “Candidatus Holospora parva”

(2016) Olivia Lanzoni et al.   PLoS One

IMNGS: A comprehensive open resource of processed 16S rRNA microbial profiles for ecology and diversity studies

(2016) Ilias Lagkouvardos et al.   Scientific Reports

A R ickettsiales symbiont of amoebae with ancient features

(2015) Frederik Schulz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Single-cell genomics of a rare environmental alphaproteobacterium provides unique insights into Rickettsiaceae evolution

(2015) Joran Martijn et al.   ISME Journal

Lotushosts delimit the mutualism-parasitism continuum ofBradyrhizobium

(2015) J. U. Regus et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A House for Two—Double Bacterial Infection in Euplotes woodruffi Sq1 (Ciliophora, Euplotia) Sampled in Southeastern Brazil

(2015) Marcus V. X. Senra et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The Hidden World within Plants: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations for Defining Functioning of Microbial Endophytes

(2015) Pablo R. Hardoim et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Two Different Rickettsial Bacteria Invading Volvox carteri

(2015) Kaoru Kawafune et al.   PLoS One

High quality draft genome sequence and description of Occidentia massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Rickettsiaceae

(2015) Oleg Mediannikov et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Towards a taxonomic coherence between average nucleotide identity and 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity for species demarcation of prokaryotes

(2014) M. Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

(2014) Pablo Yarza et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Flagellar Movement in Two Bacteria of the Family Rickettsiaceae: A Re-Evaluation of Motility in an Evolutionary Perspective

(2014) Claudia Vannini et al.   PLoS One

“Candidatus Midichloriaceae” fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an Ecologically Widespread Clade of Intracellular Alphaproteobacteria

(2013) Matteo Montagna et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial DNA Sifted from the Trichoplax adhaerens (Animalia: Placozoa) Genome Project Reveals a Putative Rickettsial Endosymbiont

(2013) Timothy Driscoll et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

“Candidatus Defluviella procrastinata” and “Candidatus Cyrtobacter zanobii”, Two Novel Ciliate Endosymbionts Belonging to the “Midichloria Clade”

(2013) Vittorio Boscaro et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

‘Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila’ gen. nov., sp. nov.: Considerations on Evolutionary History, Host Range and Shift of Early Divergent Rickettsiae

(2013) Martina Schrallhammer et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial Endosymbiosis in a Chordate Host: Long-Term Co-Evolution and Conservation of Secondary Metabolism

(2013) Jason C. Kwan et al.   PLoS One

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Permanent residents or temporary lodgers: characterizing intracellular bacterial communities in the siphonous green alga Bryopsis

(2013) J. Hollants et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rediscovering the genus Lyticum, multiflagellated symbionts of the order Rickettsiales

(2013) Vittorio Boscaro et al.   Scientific Reports

Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: origin and tangled evolutionary path of an obligate microbial association

(2012) Claudia Vannini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Molecular Identification of Rickettsial Endosymbionts in the Non-Phagotrophic Volvocalean Green Algae

(2012) Kaoru Kawafune et al.   PLoS One

Ectobiotic and Endobiotic Bacteria Associated with Eutreptiella sp. Isolated from Long Island Sound

(2012) Rita C. Kuo et al.   PROTIST

Characterization of “Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis” from the cytoplasm of Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and emended description of the family Francisellaceae

(2012) Vittorio Boscaro et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ticks and tick-borne diseases: a One Health perspective

(2012) Filipe Dantas-Torres et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

(2011) D. Sassera et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Endosymbiotic associations within protists

(2010) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endosymbiotic Bacteria in the Parasitic Ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

(2009) H. Y. Sun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Bacterial diversity and White Plague Disease-associated community changes in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata

(2009) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   ISME Journal

“CandidatusCryptoprodotis polytropus,” A NovelRickettsia-Like Organism in the Ciliated ProtistPseudomicrothorax dubius(Ciliophora, Nassophorea)

(2009) FILIPPO FERRANTINI et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Functional diversity in coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

(2008) M. Stat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA