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List of works by William A. Bourland

A Simple and Rapid Cryopreservation Technique for Ciliates: A Long-Term Storage Procedure Used for Marine Scuticociliates

scientific article published on 12 April 2019

A new contribution to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the ciliate genus Spirostomum (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Heterotrichea), with comprehensive descriptions of two species from wetlands in China

scientific article published in 2022

Agolohymena aspidocauda nov. gen., nov. spec., a histophagous freshwater tetrahymenid ciliate in the family Deltopylidae (Ciliophora, Hymenostomatia), from Idaho (northwest USA): morphology, ontogenesis and molecular phylogeny

scientific article

Ciliates — Protists with complex morphologies and ambiguous early fossil record

scholarly article by Micah Dunthorn published in September 2015

Corrigendum to "Tropidoatractidae fam. nov., a deep branching lineage of Metopida (Armophorea, Ciliophora) found in diverse habitats and possessing prokaryotic symbionts" [Protist 169 (July (3)) (2018) 362-405]

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Corrigendum to “Morphologic and molecular characterization of Apertospathula pilata n. sp., a novel freshwater spathidiid (Ciliophora Litostomatea) from Idaho USA” [Eur. J. Protistol. 89 (2023) 125990]

scientific article published in August 2023

Description of Three New Genera of Metopidae (metopida, ciliophora): Pileometopus gen. Nov., Castula gen. Nov., And Longitaenia gen. Nov., with Notes on the Phylogeny and Cryptic Diversity of Metopid Ciliates

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Description of two species of caenomorphid ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea): Morphology and molecular phylogeny

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Diversity and Phylogenetic Position of Bothrostoma Stokes, 1887 (Ciliophora: Metopida), with Description of Four New Species

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in August 2023

Epidermal growth factor-induced stimulation of proliferation and gene expression changes in the hypotrichous ciliate, Stylonychia lemnae

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Genealogical analyses of multiple loci of litostomatean ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora, Litostomatea) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 10, 2012

Genomics of New Ciliate Lineages Provides Insight into the Evolution of Obligate Anaerobiosis

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

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

scientific article published on 27 October 2023

How Far do Ciliate Flagships Sail? A Proposed Gondawanaland Endemic Species at Anchor in Idaho Soils

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Molecular Phylogeny and Taxonomy of a New Freshwater Hymenostomatid from Northeastern China, with the Establishment of a New Genus Anteglaucoma gen. n. (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea).

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

scientific article published in April 2023

Morphologic and molecular characterization of Brachonella pulchra (Kahl, 1927) comb. nov. (Armophorea, Ciliophora) with comments on cyst structure and formation

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Morphologic and molecular characterization of seven species of the remarkably diverse and widely distributed metopid genus Urostomides Jankowski, 1964 (Armophorea, Ciliophora).

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Morphologic and molecular description of Metopus fuscus Kahl from North America and new rDNA sequences from seven metopids (Armophorea, Metopidae).

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Morphologic and phylogenetic studies of two hypotrichous ciliates, with notes on morphogenesis in Gastrostyla steinii Engelmann, 1862 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia).

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Morphological and Molecular Redefinition of Euplotes platystoma Dragesco & Dragesco-Kernéis, 1986 and Aspidisca lynceus (Müller,1773) Ehrenberg, 1859, with Reconsideration of a "Well-known" Euplotes Ciliate, Euplotes harpa Stein, 1859 (Ciliophora, E

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Morphological and molecular characterization of two Trichodina (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) species from freshwater fishes in China

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Morphological and molecular phylogeny of dileptid and tracheliid ciliates: resolution at the base of the class Litostomatea (Ciliophora, Rhynchostomatia)

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Morphological, ontogenetic and molecular data support strongylidiids as being closely related to Dorsomarginalia (Protozoa, Ciliophora) and reactivation of the family Strongylidiidae Fauré-Fremiet, 1961

scientific article published in 2018

Morphology and phylogenetic position of three anaerobic ciliates from the classes Odontostomatea and Muranotrichea (Ciliophora)

scientific article published on 20 February 2023

Morphology and phylogeny of Bryophryoides ocellatus n. g., n. sp. (Ciliophora, Colpodea) from in situ soil percolates of Idaho, U.S.A.

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Morphology and phylogeny of a new woodruffiid ciliate, Etoschophrya inornata sp. n. (Ciliophora, Colpodea, Platyophryida), with an account on evolution of platyophryids

scientific article published in 2012

Morphology and phylogeny of two anaerobic freshwater ciliates: Brachonella comma sp. nov. and the widely distributed but little‐known caenomorphid, Ludio parvulus Penard, 1922 ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 February 2022

Morphology, Morphogenesis, and Phylogeny of Urosoma caudata (Ehrenberg, 1833) Berger, 1999 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) based on a Chinese Population

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Morphology, morphometrics, and molecular characterization of Bryophrya gemmea n. sp. (Ciliophora, Colpodea): implications for the phylogeny and evolutionary scenario for the formation of oral ciliature in the order Colpodida.

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

scientific article published on 20 June 2015

Multigene-based phylogeny of the ciliate families Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Hypotrichia).

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New SSU-rDNA sequences for eleven colpodeans (Ciliophora, Colpodea) and description of Apocyrtolophosis nov. gen.

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New contribution to the species-rich genus Euplotes: Morphology, ontogeny and systematic position of two species (Ciliophora; Euplotia).

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

New contributions to the taxonomy of urostylid ciliates (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with establishment of a new genus and new species

scientific article published in August 2021

Nullomer derived anticancer peptides (NulloPs): Differential lethal effects on normal and cancer cells in vitro ⬇️

scientific article published on September 20, 2012

Ontogeny and Phylogeny of a New Hypotrichous Ciliate (Protista, Ciliophora), Metaurostylopsis alrasheidi n. sp., With Establishment of a New Genus Monourostylopsis n. gen.

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Phylogenetic Position of Three Well-known Ciliates from the Controversial Order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980 (Scuticociliatia, Oligohymenophorea) and Urozona buetschlii (Schewiakoff, 1889) with Improved Morphological Descriptions

scholarly article published in 2021

Phylogenomic Analysis of Nassula variabilis n. sp., Furgasonia blochmanni, and Pseudomicrothorax dubius Confirms a Nassophorean Clade

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

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

scientific article published on February 17, 2011

Phylogeny of a new ciliate family Clampidae fam. nov. (Protista: Ciliophora), with notes on morphology and morphogenesis ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 January 2022

Phylogeny of the ciliate family Psilotrichidae (Protista, Ciliophora), a curious and poorly-known taxon, with notes on two algae-bearing psilotrichids from Guam, USA.

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Protargol synthesis: an in-house protocol

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Redescription and molecular phylogeny of the type species for two main metopid genera, Metopus es (Müller, 1776) Lauterborn, 1916 and Brachonella contorta (Levander, 1894) Jankowski, 1964 (Metopida, Ciliophora), based on broad geographic sampling.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Redescription and neotypification of a poorly known freshwater ectocommensal ciliate, Larvulina variabilis (Penard, 122), and consideration of its systematic position.

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Redescription of Atopospira galeata (Kahl, 1927) nov. comb. and A. violacea (Kahl, 1926) nov. comb. with redefinition of Atopospira Jankowski, 1964 nov. stat. and Brachonella Jankowski, 1964 (Ciliophora, Armophorida).

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

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

scientific article published in 2023

Reevaluation of the 'well-known' Paraurostyla weissei complex, with notes on the ontogenesis of a new Paraurostyla species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Remodeling the Specificity of an Endosomal CORVET Tether Underlies Formation of Regulated Secretory Vesicles in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Resolving relationships at the animal-fungal divergence: A molecular phylogenetic study of the protist trichomycetes (Ichthyosporea, Eccrinida).

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Some morphologically distinguishable hypotrich ciliates share identical 18S rRNA gene sequences – taxonomic insights from a case study on Oxytricha species (Protista, Ciliophora) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Structured multiple endosymbiosis of bacteria and archaea in a ciliate from marine sulfidic sediments: a survival mechanism in low oxygen, sulfidic sediments?

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Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogeny of Two New Urostylid Ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) From Chinese Wetlands and Establishment of a New Genus

scientific article published on 30 July 2021

Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Two Poorly Known Ciliate Genera Balantidion and Acropisthium (Ciliophora: Litostomatea), Including a New Species of Balantidion

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2022

Taxonomy of Three Oxytrichids (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), With Establishment of the New Species Rubrioxytricha guangzhouensis spec. nov.

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The Function and Evolution of Motile DNA Replication Systems in Ciliates

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

The Little-known Freshwater Metopid Ciliate, Idiometopus turbo (Dragesco and Dragesco-Kernéis, 1986) nov. gen., nov. comb., Originally Discovered in Africa, Found on the Micronesian Island of Guam

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

Transcriptome analysis on chlorpyrifos detoxification in Uronema marinum (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Tropidoatractidae fam. nov., a Deep Branching Lineage of Metopida (Armophorea, Ciliophora) Found in Diverse Habitats and Possessing Prokaryotic Symbionts

scientific article published on 21 April 2018

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