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List of works by Alastair Geoffrey Brinley Simpson

A New Divergent Type of Eukaryotic Methionine Adenosyltransferase is Present in Multiple Distantly Related Secondary Algal Lineages

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

A single-cell genome reveals diplonemid-like ancestry of kinetoplastid mitochondrial gene structure

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

A wide diversity of previously undetected free-living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats.

scientific article

Adaptations to High Salt in a Halophilic Protist: Differential Expression and Gene Acquisitions through Duplications and Gene Transfers

scientific article

Allobodo chlorophagus n. gen. n. sp., a Kinetoplastid that Infiltrates and Feeds on the Invasive Alga Codium fragile

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Amitochondriate Protists (Diplomonads, Parabasalids and Oxymonads)

Amoeba stages in the deepest branching heteroloboseans, including Pharyngomonas: evolutionary and systematic implications

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

An ultrastructural study of a free-living retortamonad, Chilomastix cuspidata (Larsen & Patterson, 1990) n. comb. (Retortamonadida, Protista)

Ancestral and derived protein import pathways in the mitochondrion of Reclinomonas americana

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Andalucia (n. gen.)--the deepest branch within jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), based on morphological and molecular study of a new flagellate from soil

scientific article

Apusomonadida

scholarly article

Arginine deiminase pathway enzymes: evolutionary history in metamonads and other eukaryotes

scientific article

Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

CBOL protist working group: barcoding eukaryotic richness beyond the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms

scientific article

Cell Morphology and Formal Description of Ergobibamus cyprinoides n. g., n. sp., Another Carpediemonas‐Like Relative of Diplomonads ⬇️

scientific article published on September 28, 2010

Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2023

Characterization of <i>Skoliomonas</i> gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada)

scientific article published on 3 September 2024

Characterization of Pharyngomonas kirbyi (= “Macropharyngomonas halophila” nomen nudum), a Very Deep-branching, Obligately Halophilic Heterolobosean Flagellate ⬇️

scientific article published on June 30, 2011

Characterization of Selenaion koniopes n. gen., n. sp., an amoeba that represents a new major lineage within heterolobosea, isolated from the Wieliczka salt mine

scientific article published on 13 August 2012

Characterization of Tulamoeba bucina n. sp., an extremely halotolerant amoeboflagellate heterolobosean belonging to the Tulamoeba-Pleurostomum clade (Tulamoebidae n. fam.).

scientific article

Characterization of a Deep-Branching Heterolobosean, Pharyngomonas turkanaensis n. sp., Isolated from a Non-Hypersaline Habitat, and Ultrastructural Comparison of Cysts and Amoebae Among Pharyngomonas Strains

scientific article

Characterization of halotolerant Bicosoecida and Placididea (Stramenopila) that are distinct from marine forms, and the phylogenetic pattern of salinity preference in heterotrophic stramenopiles

scientific article (publication date: 3 February 2010)

Clarifying the taxonomic identity of a phylogenetically important group of eukaryotes: Planomonas is a junior synonym of Ancyromonas

scientific article

Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.

scientific article

Combining Molecular Data with Classical Morphology for Uncultured Phagotrophic Euglenids (Excavata): A Single‐Cell Approach ⬇️

scientific article published on July 24, 2013

Complex array of endobionts in Petalomonas sphagnophila, a large heterotrophic euglenid protist from Sphagnum-dominated peatlands

scientific article

Comprehensive multigene phylogenies of excavate protists reveal the evolutionary positions of "primitive" eukaryotes.

scientific article

Comprehensive ultrastructure of Kipferlia bialata provides evidence for character evolution within the Fornicata (Excavata).

scientific article

Creneis carolina gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea), a novel marine anaerobic protist with strikingly derived morphology and life cycle.

scientific article

Cultivation and Characterisation of New Species of Apusomonads (the Sister Group to Opisthokonts), Including Close Relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.).

scientific article

Cytoskeletal organization, phylogenetic affinities and systematics in the contentious taxon Excavata (Eukaryota).

scientific article

Description of Imasa heleensis, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Imasidae, fam. nov.), a Deep-Branching Marine Malawimonad and Possible Key Taxon in Understanding Early Eukaryotic Evolution

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Diplonemids – A Review on "New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block

scientific article published in April 2022

Diversity of Heterotrophic Protists from Extremely Hypersaline Habitats

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists

scientific article published in August 2007

Early evolution within kinetoplastids (euglenozoa), and the late emergence of trypanosomatids.

scientific article published in December 2004

Ecological and evolutionary patterns in the enigmatic protist genus Percolomonas (Heterolobosea; Discoba) from diverse habitats

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Erratum to: On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1.

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Euglenida

article from 2017

EukRef-excavates: seven curated SSU ribosomal RNA gene databases

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Eukaryotic Evolution: Getting to the Root of the Problem

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Eukaryotic evolution: early origin of canonical introns.

scientific article published in September 2002

Evolution downunder: meeting report for the 15th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP XV).

scientific article published in August 2005

Evolution: revisiting the root of the eukaryote tree

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2009)

Evolutionary history of "early-diverging" eukaryotes: the excavate taxon Carpediemonas is a close relative of Giardia.

scientific article

Evolutionary history of mitochondrial genomes in Discoba, including the extreme halophile Pleurostomum flabellatum (Heterolobosea)

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Evolutionary relationships of apusomonads inferred from taxon-rich analyses of 6 nuclear encoded genes.

scientific article

Free-living Heterotrophic Flagellates from Freshwater Sites in Tasmania (Australia), a Field Survey ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2005

From the Editors: Describing New Taxa of Unicellular Protists

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Halocafeteria seosinensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida), a halophilic bacterivorous nanoflagellate isolated from a solar saltern.

scientific article

Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

scientific article published in Nature

Heterolobosea

scientific article published in 2016

Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia

scholarly article by David J. Patterson published in 1996

How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean?

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

How oxymonads lost their groove: an ultrastructural comparison of Monocercomonoides and excavate taxa.

scientific article published in May 2002

Insights into the phylogeny of systematically controversial haptorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Litostomatea) based on multigene analyses

scholarly article by Qianqian Zhang et al published 7 July 2012 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Jakobida

Jakobida

Kaonashia insperata gen. et sp. nov., a eukaryotrophic flagellate, represents a novel major lineage of heterotrophic stramenopiles

scientific article published on 6 October 2023

Lateral transfer of the gene for a widely used marker, alpha-tubulin, indicated by a multi-protein study of the phylogenetic position of Andalucia (Excavata).

scientific article

Light microscopic observations, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of Hicanonectes teleskopos n. g., n. sp., a deep-branching relative of diplomonads.

scientific article

Low temperature tolerance of a sea urchin pathogen: Implications for benthic community dynamics in a warming ocean

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Marine Isolates of Trimastix marina Form a Plesiomorphic Deep-branching Lineage within Preaxostyla, Separate from Other Known Trimastigids (Paratrimastix n. gen.).

scientific article

Maristentor dinoferus n. gen., n. sp., a giant heterotrich ciliate (Spirotrichea: Heterotrichida) with zooxanthellae, from coral reefs on Guam, Mariana Islands ⬇️

scientific article published in 2002

Meeting Report: XIVth Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Vancouver, Canada, June 19–24, 2002

article

Mesocosm and Microcosm Experiments On the Feeding of Temperate Salt Marsh Foraminifera

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and a Novel RNA Editing System in Deep-Branching Heteroloboseids

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, alpha-tubulin and HSP90 genes: implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads

scientific article

Morphological and molecular characterisation of Notosolenus urceolatus Larsen and Patterson 1990, a member of an understudied deep-branching euglenid group (petalomonads).

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of Stephanopogon, Stephanopogon pattersoni n. sp.

scientific article

Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs

scholarly article published in 2021

On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1.

scientific article

Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes.

scientific article

Osmoadaptative Strategy and Its Molecular Signature in Obligately Halophilic Heterotrophic Protists

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Parallel re-modeling of EF-1α function: divergent EF-1α genes co-occur with EFL genes in diverse distantly related eukaryotes

scientific article

Pelobionts are degenerate protists: insights from molecules and morphology.

scientific article

Phylogenetic artifacts can be caused by leucine, serine, and arginine codon usage heterogeneity: dinoflagellate plastid origins as a case study

scientific article published in August 2004

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

scientific article

Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads

scientific article published in 2013

Phylogenomics places orphan protistan lineages in a novel eukaryotic super-group

Ploeotids Represent Much of the Phylogenetic Diversity of Euglenids

scientific article published on 23 March 2019

Protein phylogenies robustly resolve the deep-level relationships within Euglenozoa.

scientific article published in January 2004

Recent Advances in Halophilic Protozoa Research

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Reconstruction of the feeding apparatus in Postgaardi mariagerensis provides evidence for character evolution within the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa).

scientific article

Retortamonad flagellates are closely related to diplomonads--implications for the history of mitochondrial function in eukaryote evolution

scientific article

Some free-living flagellates (protista) from anoxic habitats

scientific article published in 2000

Stentor amethystinus (Protista: Ciliophora: Heterotrichida), a common protozoan member of fresh-water plankton in Australia ⬇️

The Giant Zooxanthellae-bearing Ciliate Maristentor dinoferus (Heterotrichea) is Closely Related to Folliculinidae ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2005

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing

scientific article

The Molecular Diversity of Phagotrophic Euglenids Examined Using Single-cell Methods

scientific article published on 16 August 2020

The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists

scientific article

The New Tree of Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes ⬇️

taxonomic paper

The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates.

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

The evolutionary history of kinetoplastids and their kinetoplasts

scientific article published on December 2002

The flagellar apparatus of Breviata anathema, a eukaryote without a clear supergroup affinity.

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

The flagellar apparatus of heteroloboseans.

scientific article published on January 2004

The identity and composition of the Euglenozoa

article

The microtubular cytoskeleton of the apusomonad Thecamonas, a sister lineage to the opisthokonts.

scientific article published on 18 July 2013

The other eukaryotes in light of evolutionary protistology

article by Maureen A. O’Malley et al published 22 December 2012 in Biology and Philosophy

The real 'kingdoms' of eukaryotes

scientific article

The ultrastructure of Ancyromonas, a eukaryote without supergroup affinities

scientific article

The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the “excavate hypothesis”

Two New Marine Species of Placopus (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) That Perforate the Theca of Tetraselmis (Chlorodendrales, Viridiplantae)

scientific article published on 25 November 2018

Ultrastructure and identification of the predatory flagellateColpodella pugnax Cienkowski (Apicomplexa) with a description ofColpodella turpis n. sp. and a review of the genus ⬇️

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of Neometanema parovale sp. nov. (Neometanema gen. nov.), a Marine phagotrophic euglenid with skidding motility

scientific article

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of two heterolobosean amoebae, Euplaesiobystra hypersalinica gen. et sp. nov. and Tulamoeba peronaphora gen. et sp. nov., isolated from an extremely hypersaline habitat

scientific article

Ultrastructure and phylogenetic placement within Heterolobosea of the previously unclassified, extremely halophilic heterotrophic flagellate Pleurostomum flabellatum (Ruinen 1938).

scientific article

UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!

scientific article

Validating the identity of Paramoeba invadens, the causative agent of recurrent mass mortality of sea urchins in Nova Scotia, Canada.

scientific article published on April 2013

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