Highly divergent morphology but a close molecular phylogenetic relationship between two little‐known ciliate genera Actinobolina and Papillorhabdos (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) with description of two new species

Morphologic and molecular characterization of Apertospathula pilata n. sp., a novel freshwater spathidiid (Ciliophora, Litostomatea) from Idaho, USA

(2023) William Bourland   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Rediscovery of Remarkably Rare Anaerobic Tentaculiferous Ciliate Genera Legendrea and Dactylochlamys (Ciliophora: Litostomatea)

(2023) Ondřej Pomahač et al.   Biology-Basel

Enchelyothrix muria n. gen, n. sp., (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Spathidiida), an extreme halotroph spathidiid from Maharloo Lake, Iran

(2023) Mahnaz Barmshuri et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Roads traveled and those still to be taken

(2022) Sergei I. Fokin et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Fuscheriides baugilensis sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Haptorida) from South Korea

(2022) Seok Won Jang et al.   Diversity-Basel

Deciphering phylogenetic relationships in class Karyorelictea (Protista, Ciliophora) based on updated multi-gene information with establishment of a new order Wilbertomorphida n. ord.

(2022) Mingzhen Ma et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two poorly known ciliate genera, Balantidion and Acropisthium (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea), including a new species of Balantidion

(2022) Yong Chi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Two New Trachelophyllid Ciliates, Monolamellophrya terricola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Trachelophyllum parapiculatum sp. nov. (Litostomatea, Haptoria), From South Korea

(2022) Atef Omar et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Extraordinarily Rare Ciliate Legendrea loyezae Fauré-Fremiet, 1908 (Haptoria, Ciliophora)

(2022) James Weiss et al.   PROTIST

Taxonomy, phylogeny, and geographical distribution of the little-known Helicoprorodon multinucleatum Dragesco, 1960 (Ciliophora, Haptorida) and key to species within the genus

(2021) Limin Jiang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms

(2021) Long Zhao et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Dileptid Ciliate Genus Paradileptus (Protista: Ciliophora), With a Brief Review and Redescriptions of Two Species Isolated From a Wetland in Northern China

(2021) Yong Chi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

New Data Define the Molecular Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Four Freshwater Suctorian Ciliates With Redefinition of Two Families Heliophryidae and Cyclophryidae (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea, Suctoria)

(2021) Mingzhen Ma et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

(2020) Bui Quang Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

New contributions to the phylogeny of the ciliate class Heterotrichea (Protista, Ciliophora): analyses at family-genus level and new evolutionary hypotheses

(2020) Yong Chi et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Morphology, ultrastructure, genomics, and phylogeny of Euplotes vanleeuwenhoeki sp. nov. and its ultra-reduced endosymbiont “Candidatus Pinguicoccus supinus” sp. nov.

(2020) Valentina Serra et al.   Scientific Reports

Morphology and phylogeny of Apertospathula oktemae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Haptoria, Spathidiida) from Lake Van, Turkey

(2018) İsmail Yıldız   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Further insights into the highly derived haptorids (Ciliophora, Litostomatea): Phylogeny based on multigene data

(2018) Jie B. Huang et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Ciliate communities and hidden biodiversity in freshwater biotopes of the Pistoia province (Tuscany, Italy)

(2016) Alessia Rossi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Estimation of divergence times in litostomatean ciliates (Ciliophora: Intramacronucleata), using Bayesian relaxed clock and 18S rRNA gene

(2015) Peter Vďačný   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Rapid radiation, gradual extinction and parallel evolution challenge generic classification of spathidiid ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora)

(2015) Ľubomír Rajter et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Protargol Synthesis: An In-house Protocol

(2013) Xuming Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

The Chaos Prevails: Molecular Phylogeny of the Haptoria (Ciliophora, Litostomatea)

(2013) Peter Vďačný et al.   PROTIST

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

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

Phylogeny and classification of the Litostomatea (Protista, Ciliophora), with emphasis on free-living taxa and the 18S rRNA gene

(2011) Peter Vd’ačný et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION