Mining environmental high-throughput sequence data sets to identify divergent amplicon clusters for phylogenetic reconstruction and morphotype visualization

Testing ecological theories with sequence similarity networks: marine ciliates exhibit similar geographic dispersal patterns as multicellular organisms

(2015) Dominik Forster et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

(2014) Ramiro Logares et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Limits to robustness and reproducibility in the demarcation of operational taxonomic units

(2014) Thomas S. B. Schmidt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deep sequencing uncovers protistan plankton diversity in the Portuguese Ria Formosa solar saltern ponds

(2014) Sabine Filker et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Placing Environmental Next-Generation Sequencing Amplicons from Microbial Eukaryotes into a Phylogenetic Context

(2014) Micah Dunthorn et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

(2014) Frédéric Mahé et al.   PeerJ

Evidence for isolated evolution of deep-sea ciliate communities through geological separation and environmental selection

(2013) Alexandra Stock et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

A morphogenetic survey on ciliate plankton from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of lineage-specific barcode markers in microbial ecology

(2013) Thorsten Stoeck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multigene-Based Analyses of the Phylogenetic Evolution of Oligotrich Ciliates, with Consideration of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Secondary Structure of Three Systematically Ambiguous Genera

(2013) Jiamei Li et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Microbial biodiversity in saline shallow lakes of the Monegros Desert, Spain

(2013) Emilio O. Casamayor et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

High genetic diversity and novelty in planktonic protists inhabiting inland and coastal high salinity water bodies

(2013) Xavier Triadó-Margarit et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Picomonas judraskeda Gen. Et Sp. Nov.: The First Identified Member of the Picozoa Phylum Nov., a Widespread Group of Picoeukaryotes, Formerly Known as ‘Picobiliphytes’

(2013) Ramkumar Seenivasan et al.   PLoS One

454 Pyrosequencing to Describe Microbial Eukaryotic Community Composition, Diversity and Relative Abundance: A Test for Marine Haptophytes

(2013) Elianne Egge et al.   PLoS One

Targeted recovery of novel phylogenetic diversity from next-generation sequence data

(2012) Michael D J Lynch et al.   ISME Journal

Comparing the Hyper-Variable V4 and V9 Regions of the Small Subunit rDNA for Assessment of Ciliate Environmental Diversity

(2012) Micah Dunthorn et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity patterns of uncultured Haptophytes unravelled by pyrosequencing in Naples Bay

(2012) Lucie Bittner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Meta-analyses of environmental sequence data identify anoxia and salinity as parameters shaping ciliate communities

(2012) Dominik Forster et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Marine Protistan Diversity

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

Microbial eukaryote life in the new hypersaline deep-sea basin Thetis

(2011) Alexandra Stock et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Class Cariacotrichea, a novel ciliate taxon from the anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

(2011) W. Orsi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Global Diversity of Aloricate Oligotrichea (Protista, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) in Marine and Brackish Sea Water

(2011) Sabine Agatha   PLoS One

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

Repeated sampling reveals differential variability in measures of species richness and community composition in planktonic protists

(2011) John R. Dolan et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cotterillia bromelicola nov. gen., nov. spec., a gonostomatid ciliate (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from tank bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) with de novo originating dorsal kineties

(2010) Wilhelm Foissner et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Pelagodinium gen. nov. and P. béii comb. nov., a Dinoflagellate Symbiont of Planktonic Foraminifera

(2010) Raffaele Siano et al.   PROTIST

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

(2010) Markus Nebel et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities

(2009) Thorsten Stoeck et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Community structure and seasonal dynamics of planktonic ciliates along salinity gradients

(2009) Yanli Lei et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Past President's Address: Protistan Biogeography: Why All The Fuss?

(2009) DAVID A. CARON   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular and morphological methods for identifying plankton: what makes a successful marriage?

(2009) G. B. McManus et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Infrequent marine–freshwater transitions in the microbial world

(2009) Ramiro Logares et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial eukaryotes in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante deep-sea basin

(2008) Eva Alexander et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Communities structure of the planktonic halophiles in the solar saltern of Sfax, Tunisia

(2008) Jannet Elloumi et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

(2008) Virginia Edgcomb et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Global Sequencing: A Review of Current Molecular Data and New Methods Available to Assess Microbial Diversity

(2008) Richard Christen   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS