Morphology and phylogeny of two new ciliates, Sterkiella sinica sp. nov. and Rubrioxytricha tsinlingensis sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from north-west China

Morphology and systematics of two freshwater urostylid ciliates, with description of a new species (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

(2016) Xuming Pan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Redescription of two little-known urostyloid ciliates, Anteholosticha randani (Grolière, 1975) Berger, 2003 and A. antecirrata Berger, 2006 (Ciliophora, Urostylida)

(2016) Yangbo Fan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology and Small Subunit rDNA Phylogeny of Two New Marine Urostylid Ciliates,Caudiholosticha marinasp. nov. andNothoholosticha flavasp. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

(2016) Ju Li et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The All-Data-Based Evolutionary Hypothesis of Ciliated Protists with a Revised Classification of the Phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata)

(2016) Feng Gao et al.   Scientific Reports

Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two novel ciliates, with establishment of a new genus, Pseudogastrostyla n. g. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Oxytrichidae)

(2015) Yangbo Fan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Biogeographic specializations of two large hypotrich ciliates: Australocirrus shii and A. australis and proposed synonymy of Australocirrus and Cyrtohymenides

(2015) Santosh Kumar et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of an Indian population of Cyrtohymena citrina (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), including remarks on ontogenesis of Urosomoida-Notohymena-Cyrtohymena group

(2015) Jasbir Singh et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology, ontogenesis and molecular characterization of Atractos contortus Vörösváry, 1950 and Stichotricha aculeata Wrzesniowskiego, 1866 (Ciliophora, Stichotrichida) with consideration of their systematic positions

(2015) William A. Bourland   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of Sterkiella tetracirrata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oxytrichidae), from the Silent Valley National Park, India

(2015) Santosh Kumar et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of Urosomoida agilis, and new combinations: Hemiurosomoida longa gen. nov., comb. nov., and Heterourosomoida lanceolata gen. nov., comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)

(2015) Jasbir Singh et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology and morphogenesis of a novel mangrove ciliate, Sterkiella subtropica sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with phylogenetic analyses based on small-subunit rDNA sequence data

(2015) Xumiao Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Description and Phylogeny ofUrostyla grandis wiackowskiisubsp. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from an Estuarine Mangrove in Brazil

(2015) Thiago da Silva Paiva et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Two Gonostomatid Ciliates from the Soil of Lombardia, Italy; including Note on the Soil Mapping Project

(2015) Daizy Bharti et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic framework of the systematically confused Anteholosticha–Holosticha complex (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) based on multigene analysis

(2015) Xiaolu Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Redefinition of the hypotrichous ciliateUncinata, with descriptions of the morphology and phylogeny of three urostylids (Protista, Ciliophora)

(2015) Xiaotian Luo et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

A case study to estimate the applicability of secondary structures of SSU-rRNA gene in taxonomy and phylogenetic analyses of ciliates

(2015) Pu Wang et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Morphology and phylogenetic position of the oxytrichid ciliates, Urosoma salmastra (Dragesco and Dragesco-Kernéis, 1986) Berger, 1999 and U. karinae sinense nov. sspec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

(2014) Chen Shao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of an oxytrichid ciliate, Rubrioxytricha haematoplasma (Blatterer & Foissner, 1990) Berger, 1999 (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)

(2014) W. Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology, Morphogenesis, and Molecular Phylogeny ofParaparentocirrus sibillinensisn. gen., n. sp., a “Stylonychine Oxytrichidae” (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida) Without Transverse Cirri

(2014) Santosh Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny ofApoterritricha lutean. g., n. sp. (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Hypotrichia): A Putative Missing Link ConnectingCyrtohymenaandAfrokeronopsis

(2014) Ji Hye Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny ofPseudocyrtohymena koreanan. g., n. sp. and AntarcticNeokeronopsis asiaticaFoissner et al., 2010 (Ciliophora, Sporadotrichida), with a Brief Discussion of theCyrtohymenaUndulating Membranes Pattern

(2014) Jae-Ho Jung et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

A Molecular Phylogenetic Investigation ofBakuella,Anteholosticha,andCaudiholosticha(Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) Based on Three-Gene Sequences

(2014) Zhao Lv et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Three-gene based phylogeny of the Urostyloidea (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotricha), with notes on classification of some core taxa

(2013) Jie Huang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of the Order Urostylida (Protozoa, Ciliophora): New Hypotheses Based on Multi-Gene Information and Identification of Localized Incongruence

(2011) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   PLoS One

Molecular phylogeny ofNothoholosticha(Protozoa, Ciliophora, Urostylida) and systematic relationships of theHolosticha-complex

(2011) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Molecular phylogeny and species separation of five morphologically similar Holosticha-complex ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) using ARDRA riboprinting and multigene sequence data

(2010) Feng Gao et al.   CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY

Increasing taxon sampling using both unidentified environmental sequences and identified cultures improves phylogenetic inference in the Prorodontida (Ciliophora, Prostomatea)

(2010) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores

(2010) O. Penn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogenetic positions and taxonomic assignments of the systematically controversial genera,Spirotrachelostyla,UroleptopsisandTunicothrix(Protozoa, Ciliophora, Stichotrichia) based on small subunit rRNA gene sequences

(2010) Jie Huang et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Ontogeny and phylogeny of Metaurostylopsis cheni sp. n. (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with estimating the systematic position of Metaurostylopsis

(2010) Xumiao Chen et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA