Ciliate diversity and distribution across horizontal and vertical scales in the open ocean

A metagenomic assessment of microbial eukaryotic diversity in the global ocean

(2020) Aleix Obiol et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota

(2020) Ramiro Logares et al.   Microbiome

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

Integrated Space-Time Dataset Reveals High Diversity and Distinct Community Structure of Ciliates in Mesopelagic Waters of the Northern South China Sea

(2019) Ping Sun et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life

(2019) Federico M. Ibarbalz et al.   CELL

Marked changes in diversity and relative activity of picoeukaryotes with depth in the world ocean

(2019) Caterina R. Giner et al.   ISME Journal

Current practice in plankton metabarcoding: optimization and error management

(2019) Luciana F Santoferrara   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Shifting metabolic priorities among key protistan taxa within and below the euphotic zone

(2018) Sarah K. Hu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

EukRef-Ciliophora: a manually curated, phylogeny-based database of small subunit rRNA gene sequences of ciliates

(2018) Vittorio Boscaro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Global and local DNA (meta)barcoding reveal new biogeography patterns in tintinnid ciliates

(2018) Luciana F Santoferrara et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

(2018) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Quantifying long-term recurrence in planktonic microbial eukaryotes

(2018) Caterina R. Giner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity of free-living marine ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Faunal studies in coastal waters of China during the years 2011–2016

(2017) Weiwei Liu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Motile behaviour of the free-living planktonic ciliate Zoothamnium pelagicum (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)

(2017) Fernando Gómez   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Patterns and Drivers of Vertical Distribution of the Ciliate Community from the Surface to the Abyssopelagic Zone in the Western Pacific Ocean

(2017) Feng Zhao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Marked seasonality and high spatial variation in estuarine ciliates are driven by exchanges between the ‘abundant’ and ‘intermediate’ biospheres

(2017) Ping Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbial eukaryote communities exhibit robust biogeographical patterns along a gradient of Patagonian and Antarctic lakes

(2016) M. Romina Schiaffino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Unexpected biodiversity of ciliates in marine samples from below the photic zone

(2016) Jean-David Grattepanche et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Tara Oceans voyage reveals global diversity and distribution patterns of marine planktonic ciliates

(2016) Anna Gimmler et al.   Scientific Reports

Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

(2015) Ramon Massana et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Distinct assemblage of planktonic ciliates dominates both photic and deep waters on the New England shelf

(2015) JD Grattepanche et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Ubiquitous healthy diatoms in the deep sea confirm deep carbon injection by the biological pump

(2015) S. Agusti et al.   Nature Communications

Genome of the facultative scuticociliatosis pathogen Pseudocohnilembus persalinus provides insight into its virulence through horizontal gene transfer

(2015) Jie Xiong et al.   Scientific Reports

Distinct assemblage of planktonic ciliates dominates both photic and deep waters on the New England shelf

(2015) JD Grattepanche et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

(2015) Stéphane Pesant et al.   Scientific Data

Latitudinal pattern of abundance and composition of ciliate communities in the surface waters of the Atlantic Ocean

(2015) Krzysztof Rychert et al.   OCEANOLOGICAL AND HYDROBIOLOGICAL STUDIES

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Pyrosequencing for assessing diversity of eukaryotic microbes: analysis of data on marine planktonic ciliates and comparison with traditional methods

(2014) Luciana F. Santoferrara et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ciliates in Extreme Environments

(2014) Xiaozhong Hu   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for isolated evolution of deep-sea ciliate communities through geological separation and environmental selection

(2013) Alexandra Stock et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Seasonal dynamics of free-living tintinnid ciliate communities revealed by environmental sequences from the North-West Mediterranean Sea

(2013) Charles Bachy et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bacterial production and losses to predators along an open ocean productivity gradient in the Subtropical North East Atlantic Ocean

(2013) Dolors Vaqué et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Choice of Pore Size Can Introduce Artefacts when Filtering Picoeukaryotes for Molecular Biodiversity Studies

(2013) Nikolaj Sørensen et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Do microbes have macroecology? Large-scale patterns in the diversity and distribution of marine benthic ciliates

(2012) Andrey Azovsky et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeography of bacterial communities exposed to progressive long-term environmental change

(2012) Ramiro Logares 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

Microbial eukaryote life in the new hypersaline deep-sea basin Thetis

(2011) Alexandra Stock et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Metagenetic community analysis of microbial eukaryotes illuminates biogeographic patterns in deep-sea and shallow water sediments

(2011) HOLLY M. BIK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Global Diversity of Aloricate Oligotrichea (Protista, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) in Marine and Brackish Sea Water

(2011) Sabine Agatha   PLoS One

Molecular diversity and temporal variation of picoeukaryotes in two Arctic fjords, Svalbard

(2011) N. Sørensen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Performance, Accuracy, and Web Server for Evolutionary Placement of Short Sequence Reads under Maximum Likelihood

(2011) Simon A. Berger et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ciliate distributions and forcing factors in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas (Antarctic)

(2010) SA Wickham et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Full-depth profiles of prokaryotes, heterotrophic nanoflagellates, and ciliates along a transect from the equatorial to the subarctic central Pacific Ocean

(2010) Rumi Sohrin et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Comparative analysis between protist communities from the deep-sea pelagic ecosystem and specific deep hydrothermal habitats

(2010) Anne-Laure Sauvadet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

First Isolation of Pseudocohnilembus persalinus (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatida) From Freshwater-Reared Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

(2010) Simon R. M. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Bathymetric, latitudinal and vertical distribution of protozooplankton in a cold-temperate shelf (southern Patagonian waters) during winter

(2010) L. F. Santoferrara et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity – What Do We Know About the Distribution of Life in the Southern Ocean?

(2010) Huw J. Griffiths   PLoS One

Mesopelagic protists: diversity and succession in a coastal Arctic ecosystem

(2009) R Terrado et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Molecular Evidence that Phylogenetically Diverged Ciliates Are Active in Microbial Mats of Deep-Sea Cold-Seep Sediment

(2009) KIYOTAKA TAKISHITA et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

New Insights into the Diversity of Marine Picoeukaryotes

(2009) Fabrice Not et al.   PLoS One

Genetic diversity of picoeukaryotes in a semi-enclosed harbour in the subtropical western Pacific Ocean

(2008) MK Cheung et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Eva Alexander et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY