SSU rDNA Sequence Diversity and Seasonally Differentiated Distribution of Nanoplanktonic Ciliates in Neritic Bohai and Yellow Seas as Revealed by T-RFLP

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Extremely High Copy Numbers and Polymorphisms of the rDNA Operon Estimated from Single Cell Analysis of Oligotrich and Peritrich Ciliates

(2013) Jun Gong et al.   PROTIST

Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study

(2012) Charles Bachy et al.   ISME Journal

Composition of the summer photosynthetic pico and nanoplankton communities in the Beaufort Sea assessed by T-RFLP and sequences of the 18S rRNA gene from flow cytometry sorted samples

(2012) Sergio Balzano et al.   ISME Journal

A combined sequence-based and fragment-based characterization of microbial eukaryote assemblages provides taxonomic context for the Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) method

(2012) Diane Y. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Molecular Phylogeny of Tintinnid Ciliates (Tintinnida, Ciliophora)

(2012) Charles Bachy et al.   PROTIST

Marine Protistan Diversity

(2011) David A. Caron et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Distribution and diversity of oligotrich and choreotrich ciliates across an environmental gradient in a large temperate estuary

(2011) M Tamura et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Diversity and seasonality in structure of ciliate communities in the Neva Estuary (Baltic Sea)

(2011) E. Mironova et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Taxonomy, morphology and molecular systematics of a new oligotrich ciliate,Williophrya maedaigen. nov., sp. nov., with redescriptions ofStrombidium basimorphumandPseudotontonia simplicidens(Protozoa, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia)

(2011) WEIWEI LIU et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Diversity of Oligotrichia and Choreotrichia Ciliates in Coastal Marine Sediments and in Overlying Plankton

(2010) M. Doherty et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ciliate diversity and distribution across an environmental and depth gradient in Long Island Sound, USA

(2010) Mary Doherty et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sequence diversity and novelty of natural assemblages of picoeukaryotes from the Indian Ocean

(2010) Ramon Massana et al.   ISME Journal

Morphologic and Molecular Data Suggest that Lynnella semiglobulosa n. g., n. sp. Represents a New Family within the Subclass Choreotrichia (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea)

(2010) WEIWEI LIU et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Contrasting seasonal niche separation between rare and abundant taxa conceals the extent of protist diversity

(2010) VIOLA NOLTE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Delimiting operational taxonomic units for assessing ciliate environmental diversity using small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

(2010) Markus Nebel et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Defining DNA-Based Operational Taxonomic Units for Microbial-Eukaryote Ecology

(2009) D. A. Caron et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hypotheses on the role of the protistan rare biosphere in a changing world

(2009) DA Caron et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Ciliate community in the oligotrophic Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

(2008) M Claessens et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Meso-scale spatial distribution of large tintinnids in early summer in southern Yellow Sea

(2008) Cuixia Zhang et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY

Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging toSyndiniales(Alveolata)

(2008) L. Guillou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The microbial loop – 25 years later

(2008) Tom Fenchel   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY