Further insights in the Tardigrada microbiome: phylogenetic position and prevalence of infection of four new Alphaproteobacteria putative endosymbionts

The Microbial Community of Tardigrades: Environmental Influence and Species Specificity of Microbiome Structure and Composition

(2018) Matteo Vecchi et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Prevalence and evolutionary history of endosymbiont Wolbachia (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) in parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) associated with Bactrocera fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) infesting carambola

(2017) Muhamad Azmi Mohammed et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts (“Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis” and “Candidatus Fokinia cryptica”) Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia

(2016) Franziska Szokoli et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiotic Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria) from the spider genusAmaurobioides(Araneae: Anyphaenidae)

(2016) F.S. Ceccarelli et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Genome of a tardigrade: Horizontal gene transfer or bacterial contamination?

(2016) Felix Bemm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigradeHypsibius dujardini

(2016) Georgios Koutsovoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interspecific relationships of tardigrades with bacteria, fungi and protozoans, with a focus on the phylogenetic position ofPyxidium tardigradum(Ciliophora)

(2016) Matteo Vecchi et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A Novel Extracellular Gut Symbiont in the Marine Worm Priapulus caudatus (Priapulida) Reveals an Alphaproteobacterial Symbiont Clade of the Ecdysozoa

(2016) Paul Kroer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

“Candidatus Fokinia solitaria”, a Novel “Stand-Alone” Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales)

(2016) Franziska Szokoli et al.   PLoS One

IMNGS: A comprehensive open resource of processed 16S rRNA microbial profiles for ecology and diversity studies

(2016) Ilias Lagkouvardos et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade

(2015) Thomas C. Boothby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny of Eutardigrada: New molecular data and their morphological support lead to the identification of new evolutionary lineages

(2014) Roberto Bertolani et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mopsechiniscus franciscae, a new species of a rare genus of Tardigrada from continental Antarctica

(2014) Roberto Guidetti et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Diversity of Rickettsiales in the Microbiome of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum

(2013) Loganathan Ponnusamy et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Selective neuronal staining in tardigrades and onychophorans provides insights into the evolution of segmental ganglia in panarthropods

(2013) Georg Mayer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular Timetrees Reveal a Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New Scenario for Ecdysozoan Evolution

(2013) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks

(2013) Pelin Yilmaz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial Endosymbiosis in a Chordate Host: Long-Term Co-Evolution and Conservation of Secondary Metabolism

(2013) Jason C. Kwan et al.   PLoS One

Integrative taxonomy allows the identification of synonymous species and the erection of a new genus of Echiniscidae (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada)

(2013) FILIPE VICENTE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades

(2011) N. Møbjerg et al.   Acta Physiologica

On dormancy strategies in tardigrades

(2011) Roberto Guidetti et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda

(2011) L. I. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Sequence Read Archive

(2010) R. Leinonen et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Ultrastructural changes of the midgut epithelium in Isohypsibius granulifer granulifer Thulin, 1928 (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada) during oogenesis

(2010) Magdalena M. Rost-Roszkowska et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

(2009) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes

(2009) B. J. Tindall et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont-mediated protection

(2007) E. R Haine   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES