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List of works by Alastair Geoffrey Brinley Simpson

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The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

taxonomic paper

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 23 August 2011

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates.

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

The real 'kingdoms' of eukaryotes

scientific article

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

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

scientific article

Evolution: revisiting the root of the eukaryote tree

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2009)

Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists

scientific article published in August 2007

Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads

scientific article published in 2013

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

The evolutionary history of kinetoplastids and their kinetoplasts

scientific article published on December 2002

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

scientific article

Some free-living flagellates (protista) from anoxic habitats

scientific article published in 2000

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

scientific article

The identity and composition of the Euglenozoa

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

scientific article published in December 2004

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

scientific article published in January 2004

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

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

Eukaryotic Evolution: Getting to the Root of the Problem

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

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

scientific article

Eukaryotic evolution: early origin of canonical introns.

scientific article published in September 2002

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

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

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

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

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

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

Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia

scholarly article by David J. Patterson published in 1996

Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes

scientific article

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).

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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

Osmoadaptative Strategy and Its Molecular Signature in Obligately Halophilic Heterotrophic Protists

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

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)

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

scientific article published in Nature

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

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

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

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

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

scientific article published on June 30, 2011

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

scientific article published in May 2002

Pelobionts are degenerate protists: insights from molecules and morphology.

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Creneis carolina gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea), a Novel Marine Anaerobic Protist with Strikingly Derived Morphology and Life Cycle

scientific article published on June 5, 2014

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

scientific article published in January 2005

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

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

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

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

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

scientific article published on 17 September 2018