An integrative approach sheds new light onto the systematics and ecology of the widespread ciliate genus Coleps (Ciliophora, Prostomatea)

Seasonality of Planktonic Freshwater Ciliates: Are Analyses Based on V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA Gene Correlated With Morphospecies Counts?

(2019) Gianna Pitsch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Improving eDNA‐based protist diversity assessments using networks of amplicon sequence variants

(2019) Dominik Forster et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Are there any true marine Chlorella species? Molecular phylogenetic assessment and ecology of marine Chlorella-like organisms, including a description of Droopiella gen. nov.

(2019) Tatyana Darienko et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Importance of ciliates as food for fish larvae in a shallow sea bay and a large shallow lake

(2018) Priit Zingel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

From dimictic to monomictic: Empirical evidence of thermal regime transitions in three deep alpine lakes in Austria induced by climate change

(2017) Harald Ficker et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

First Limnological Characterization of Crater Lake Billy Mitchell (Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea)

(2017) Robert Schabetsberger et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

Using null models to infer microbial co-occurrence networks

(2017) Nora Connor et al.   PLoS One

Abrupt stop of deep water turnover with lake warming: Drastic consequences for algal primary producers

(2017) Yana Yankova et al.   Scientific Reports

Protozoa ciliates community structure in urban streams and their environmental use as indicators

(2016) C. Debastiani et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Species concept and nomenclatural changes within the generaElliptochlorisandPseudochlorella(Trebouxiophyceae) based on an integrative approach

(2016) Tatyana Darienko et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Limnological Characterization of the Largest Freshwater Lake in Remote Oceania (Lake Letas, Gaua Island, Vanuatu)

(2015) Ursula Sichrowsky et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

Discrimination of Closely Related Species in Tintinnid Ciliates: New Insights on Crypticity and Polymorphism in the Genus Helicostomella

(2015) Luciana F. Santoferrara et al.   PROTIST

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

popart: full-feature software for haplotype network construction

(2015) Jessica W. Leigh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Network of Interactions Between Ciliates and Phytoplankton During Spring

(2015) Thomas Posch et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

(2015) Frédéric Mahé et al.   PeerJ

Limnological Characterization of Volcanic Crater Lakes on Uvea Island (Wallis and Futuna, South Pacific)

(2014) Ursula Sichrowsky et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

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

Spatial genetic variation, phylogeography and barcoding of the peritrichous ciliate Carchesium polypinum

(2012) Eleni Gentekaki et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

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

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Harmful filamentous cyanobacteria favoured by reduced water turnover with lake warming

(2012) Thomas Posch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Taxonomic descriptions of three marine colepid ciliates, Nolandia sinica spec. nov., Apocoleps caoi spec. nov. and Tiarina fusa (Claparede & Lachmann, 1858) Bergh, 1881 (Ciliophora, Prorodontida)

(2011) X. Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Morphological studies on two marine colepid ciliates from Qingdao, China, Nolandia orientalis spec. nov. and Pinacocoleps similis (Kahl, 1933) comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Colepidae)

(2010) Xiangrui Chen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Evidence for Cryptic Speciation in Carchesium polypinum Linnaeus, 1758 (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) Inferred from Mitochondrial, Nuclear, and Morphological Markers

(2010) ELENI GENTEKAKI et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

PseudoViewer3: generating planar drawings of large-scale RNA structures with pseudoknots

(2009) Yanga Byun et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

High mitochondrial haplotype diversity of Coleps sp. (Ciliophora: Prostomatida)

(2008) Dana Barth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2008) Eva Alexander et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology and Gene Sequence ofLevicoleps biwaen. gen., n. sp. (Ciliophora, Prostomatida), a Proposed Endemic from the Ancient Lake Biwa, Japan

(2008) WILHELM FOISSNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluating inducible morphological defences in the common freshwater ciliate, Coleps hirtus

(2008) S. A. Wickham et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION