Making sense of environmental sequencing data: Ecologically important functional traits of the protistan groups Cercozoa and Endomyxa (Rhizaria)

Ascetosporea

(2019) David Bass et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mixotrophic protists display contrasted biogeographies in the global ocean

(2019) Emile Faure et al.   ISME Journal

Functional Traits and Spatio-Temporal Structure of a Major Group of Soil Protists (Rhizaria: Cercozoa) in a Temperate Grassland

(2019) Anna Maria Fiore-Donno et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The planktonic protist interactome: where do we stand after a century of research?

(2019) Marit F. Markussen Bjorbækmo et al.   ISME Journal

Rhizarian ‘Novel Clade 10’ Revealed as Abundant and Diverse Planktonic and Terrestrial Flagellates, including Aquavolon n. gen.

(2018) David Bass et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria

(2018) Thomas Cavalier-Smith et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

(2018) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Grazing of leaf-associated Cercomonads (Protists: Rhizaria: Cercozoa) structures bacterial community composition and function

(2017) Sebastian Flues et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogeny and Redescription of the Testate Amoeba Diaphoropodon archeri (Chlamydophryidae, Thecofilosea, Cercozoa), De Saedeleer 1934, and Annotations on the Polyphyly of Testate Amoebae with Agglutinated Tests in the Cercozoa

(2017) Kenneth Dumack et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

New barcoded primers for efficient retrieval of cercozoan sequences in high-throughput environmental diversity surveys, with emphasis on worldwide biological soil crusts

(2017) Anna Maria Fiore-Donno et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

(2017) Frédéric Mahé et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Abrupt ecological changes in the last 800 years inferred from a mountainous bog using testate amoebae traits and multi-proxy data

(2016) Katarzyna Kajukało et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Loss of testate amoeba functional diversity with increasing frost intensity across a continental gradient reduces microbial activity in peatlands

(2016) Vincent E.J. Jassey et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

Protistan community analysis: key findings of a large-scale molecular sampling

(2016) Lars Grossmann et al.   ISME Journal

In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean

(2016) Tristan Biard et al.   NATURE

Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiome

(2016) S. Louca et al.   SCIENCE

The soil food web revisited: Diverse and widespread mycophagous soil protists

(2016) Stefan Geisen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A novel testate amoebae trait-based approach to infer environmental disturbance in Sphagnum peatlands

(2016) Katarzyna Marcisz et al.   Scientific Reports

Functional screening of abundant bacteria from acidic forest soil indicates the metabolic potential of Acidobacteria subdivision 1 for polysaccharide decomposition

(2015) Salvador Lladó et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Microbial activity in forest soil reflects the changes in ecosystem properties between summer and winter

(2015) Lucia Žifčáková et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Functional traits as a new approach for interpreting testate amoeba palaeo-records in peatlands and assessing the causes and consequences of past changes in species composition

(2015) Bertrand Fournier et al.   HOLOCENE

Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils

(2015) Stefan Geisen et al.   ISME Journal

Evolutionary Origins of Rhizarian Parasites

(2015) Roberto Sierra et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

Metabolic and trophic interactions modulate methane production by Arctic peat microbiota in response to warming

(2015) Alexander Tøsdal Tveit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional group-specific traits drive phytoplankton dynamics in the oligotrophic ocean

(2015) Harriet Alexander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Forest floor community metatranscriptomes identify fungal and bacterial responses to N deposition in two maple forests

(2015) Cedar N. Hesse et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Cross-kingdom host shifts of phytomyxid parasites

(2014) Sigrid Neuhauser et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rhizaria

(2014) Fabien Burki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Plant functional diversity drives niche-size-structure of dominant microbial consumers along a poor to extremely rich fen gradient

(2014) Vincent E. J. Jassey et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The others: our biased perspective of eukaryotic genomes

(2014) Javier del Campo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Sascha Krause et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants

(2013) Thomas R Turner et al.   ISME Journal

Integrating abundance and functional traits reveals new global hotspots of fish diversity

(2013) Rick D. Stuart-Smith et al.   NATURE

Community structure of cultivable protists in different grassland and forest soils of Thuringia

(2012) Anne Domonell et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

(2012) Jan Pawlowski et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Environmental factors determining ammonia-oxidizing organism distribution and diversity in marine environments

(2011) Nicholas J. Bouskill et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

New Genera, Species, and Improved Phylogeny of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa)

(2011) Alexis T. Howe et al.   PROTIST

Internally driven alternation of functional traits in a multispecies predator–prey system

(2010) Katrin Tirok et al.   ECOLOGY

Testate Amoebae and Nutrient Cycling with Particular Reference to Soils

(2010) David M. Wilkinson et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggests transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent

(2009) Thierry J. Heger et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Astounding Genetic Diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., The Dominant Gliding Zooflagellates in Soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa)

(2009) Alexis T. Howe et al.   PROTIST

Phylogeny and Classification of Cercomonadida (Protozoa, Cercozoa): Cercomonas, Eocercomonas, Paracercomonas, and Cavernomonas gen. nov.

(2009) David Bass et al.   PROTIST

Diversification of unicellular eukaryotes: cryptomonad colonizations of marine and fresh waters inferred from revised 18S rRNA phylogeny

(2008) Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome

(2008) Tim Urich et al.   PLoS One