The global-scale distributions of soil protists and their contributions to belowground systems

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

(2019) Paul B. L. George et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial amendments alter protist communities within the soil microbiome

(2019) Wu Xiong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs

(2018) Robert C Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

The ecology and diversity of microbial eukaryotes in geothermal springs

(2018) Angela M. Oliverio et al.   ISME Journal

The Hidden Diversity of Flagellated Protists in Soil

(2018) Paul Christiaan Venter et al.   PROTIST

Discrepancies Between Molecular and Morphological Databases of Soil Ciliates Studied for Temperate Grasslands of Central Europe

(2018) Paul Christiaan Venter et al.   PROTIST

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil

(2018) Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo et al.   SCIENCE

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome

(2018) Mohammad Bahram et al.   NATURE

Detecting Associations Between Ciliated Protists and Prokaryotes with Culture-Independent Single-Cell Microbiomics: a Proof-of-Concept Study

(2018) Alessia Rossi et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Are We Overestimating Protistan Diversity in Nature?

(2018) David A. Caron et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis

(2017) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   ISME Journal

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Protistan Microbiome of Grassland Soil: Diversity in the Mesoscale

(2017) Paul Christiaan Venter et al.   PROTIST

Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

(2017) Stefan Geisen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Distribution patterns of soil microbial eukaryotes suggests widespread algivory by phagotrophic protists as an alternative pathway for nutrient cycling

(2017) Christophe V.W. Seppey et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

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

Differences in soil micro-eukaryotic communities over soil pH gradients are strongly driven by parasites and saprotrophs

(2016) A. Ö. C. Dupont et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The prey’s scent – Volatile organic compound mediated interactions between soil bacteria and their protist predators

(2016) Kristin Schulz-Bohm et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2016) Jun Gong et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils

(2015) Stefan Geisen et al.   ISME Journal

An improved high throughput sequencing method for studying oomycete communities

(2015) Rumakanta Sapkota et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Isolation of Vermamoeba vermiformis and associated bacteria in hospital water

(2015) Isabelle Pagnier et al.   MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS

Not all are free-living: high-throughput DNA metabarcoding reveals a diverse community of protists parasitizing soil metazoa

(2015) S. Geisen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Inexpensive Multiplexed Library Preparation for Megabase-Sized Genomes

(2015) Michael Baym et al.   PLoS One

Predicting the responsiveness of soil biodiversity to deforestation: a cross-biome study

(2014) Thomas W. Crowther et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Richard D. Bardgett et al.   NATURE

Soil water availability strongly alters the community composition of soil protists

(2014) Geisen Stefan et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Systematic Design of 18S rRNA Gene Primers for Determining Eukaryotic Diversity in Microbial Consortia

(2014) Luisa W. Hugerth et al.   PLoS One

Wide Occurrence of SSU rDNA Intragenomic Polymorphism in Foraminifera and its Implications for Molecular Species Identification

(2014) Alexandra Anh-Thu Weber et al.   PROTIST

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Thomas R Turner et al.   ISME Journal

Diversity of protists and bacteria determines predation performance and stability

(2013) Muhammad Saleem et al.   ISME Journal

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Global biogeography of highly diverse protistan communities in soil

(2012) Scott T Bates et al.   ISME Journal

The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

(2012) Laure Guillou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

Niche specialization of terrestrial archaeal ammonia oxidizers

(2011) C. Gubry-Rangin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

RAMI: a tool for identification and characterization of phylogenetic clusters in microbial communities

(2009) Thomas Pommier et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Global ecological patterns in uncultured Archaea

(2009) Jean-Christophe Auguet et al.   ISME Journal

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