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"Deciphering Archaeal Communities" Omics Tools in the Study of Archaeal Communities

scientific article published in January 2016

16S rDNA-based analysis reveals cosmopolitan occurrence but limited diversity of two cyanobacterial lineages with contrasted patterns of intracellular carbonate mineralization

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5. Prebiotic Chemistry – Biochemistry – Emergence of Life (4.4–2 Ga)

A Phylogenomic Framework to Study the Diversity and Evolution of Stramenopiles (=Heterokonts).

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A new class of marine Euryarchaeota group II from the Mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum

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A novel haloarchaeal-related lineage is widely distributed in deep oceanic regions

scientific article published in January 2001

Accuracy of protist diversity assessments: morphology compared with cloning and direct pyrosequencing of 18S rRNA genes and ITS regions using the conspicuous tintinnid ciliates as a case study

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An ACP-Independent Fatty Acid Synthesis Pathway in Archaea: Implications for the Origin of Phospholipids

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

An Early-Branching Freshwater Cyanobacterium at the Origin of Plastids.

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An early-branching microbialite cyanobacterium forms intracellular carbonates

scientific article published in April 2012

An updated view of kinetoplastid phylogeny using environmental sequences and a closer outgroup: proposal for a new classification of the class Kinetoplastea

scientific article published in September 2004

Analysis of a genome fragment of a deep-sea uncultivated Group II euryarchaeote containing 16S rDNA, a spectinomycin-like operon and several energy metabolism genes

scientific article published in September 2004

Ancestral lipid biosynthesis and early membrane evolution

scientific article published in September 2004

Archaeal and bacterial community composition of sediment and plankton from a suboxic freshwater pond

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Are hydrothermal vents oases for parasitic protists?

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Autochthonous eukaryotic diversity in hydrothermal sediment and experimental microcolonizers at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Bacterial Mode of Replication with Eukaryotic-Like Machinery in a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon

scientific article published in Science

Bacterial diversity and carbonate precipitation in the giant microbialites from the highly alkaline Lake Van, Turkey

scientific article published on 15 June 2005

Bacterial diversity in hydrothermal sediment and epsilonproteobacterial dominance in experimental microcolonizers at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

scientific article published in October 2003

Bacterial gene import and mesophilic adaptation in archaea

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Balechina and the new genus Cucumeridinium gen. nov. (Dinophyceae), unarmored dinoflagellates with thick cell coverings

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Biomarkers of Endolithic Communities within Gypsum Crusts (Southern Tunisia)

Biomineralization Patterns of Intracellular Carbonatogenesis in Cyanobacteria: Molecular Hypotheses

Biosignatures and Bacterial Diversity in Hydrothermal Deposits of Solfatara Crater, Italy

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

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Comment on "The 1.2-megabase genome sequence of Mimivirus".

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Comparative Restriction Maps of the Archaeal Megaplasmid pHM300 in Different Haloferax mediterranei Strains

scientific article published in 1995

Comparative analysis of a genome fragment of an uncultivated mesopelagic crenarchaeote reveals multiple horizontal gene transfers

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Comparative analysis of genome fragments of Acidobacteria from deep Mediterranean plankton

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Comparative metagenomics of bathypelagic plankton and bottom sediment from the Sea of Marmara

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Comparative metagenomics unveils functions and genome features of microbialite-associated communities along a depth gradient

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Complete-fosmid and fosmid-end sequences reveal frequent horizontal gene transfers in marine uncultured planktonic archaea

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Complex communities of small protists and unexpected occurrence of typical marine lineages in shallow freshwater systems

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Control of DNA topology during thermal stress in hyperthermophilic archaea: DNA topoisomerase levels, activities and induced thermotolerance during heat and cold shock in Sulfolobus

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Core microbial communities of lacustrine microbialites sampled along an alkalinity gradient

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Cyanobacterial formation of intracellular Ca-carbonates in undersaturated solutions

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

DNA supercoiling and temperature adaptation: A clue to early diversification of life?

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DNA topology and the thermal stress response, a tale from mesophiles and hyperthermophiles

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DNA topology in hyperthermophilic archaea: reference states and their variation with growth phase, growth temperature, and temperature stresses

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Description of Gloeomargarita lithophora gen. nov., sp. nov., a thylakoid-bearing basal-branching cyanobacterium with intracellular carbonates, and proposal for Gloeomargaritales ord. nov.

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Different biogeographic patterns of prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes in epilithic biofilms

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Diversity and vertical distribution of microbial eukaryotes in the snow, sea ice and seawater near the north pole at the end of the polar night

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Domain (Taxonomy)

Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages

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Ectosymbiotic bacteria at the origin of magnetoreception in a marine protist

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Environmental drivers of plankton protist communities along latitudinal and vertical gradients in the oldest and deepest freshwater lake

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Eukaryotic diversity and phylogeny using small- and large-subunit ribosomal RNA genes from environmental samples

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Eukaryotic diversity associated with carbonates and fluid-seawater interface in Lost City hydrothermal field

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Evolution of viruses and cells: do we need a fourth domain of life to explain the origin of eukaryotes?

scientific article published on September 2015

Evolution: King-Size Plastid Genomes in a New Red Algal Clade

scientific article published in July 2017

Evolutionary Genomics of Metchnikovella incurvata (Metchnikovellidae): An Early Branching Microsporidium

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Extending the conserved phylogenetic core of archaea disentangles the evolution of the third domain of life

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Extremophiles

Fe-bearing phases in modern lacustrine microbialites from Mexico

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Fluorescence in situ hybridisation coupled to ultra small immunogold detection to identify prokaryotic cells using transmission and scanning electron microscopy

scientific article published in October 2005

Formation of low-T hydrated silicates in modern microbialites from Mexico and implications for microbial fossilization

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Functional shifts in microbial mats recapitulate early Earth metabolic transitions

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Genomes of Abundant and Widespread Viruses from the Deep Ocean

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Genomic organization of the halophilic archaeon Haloferax mediterranei: physical map of the chromosome

scientific article published on May 25, 1992

Global dispersal and ancient cryptic species in the smallest marine eukaryotes

scientific article published on 24 August 2005

Global eukaryote phylogeny: Combined small- and large-subunit ribosomal DNA trees support monophyly of Rhizaria, Retaria and Excavata

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Global transcriptome analysis of the aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae supports the phagotrophic origin of fungi

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

Habitability: the Point of View of a Biologist

Halobacterial megaplasmids are negatively supercoiled

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Highly diverse and seasonally dynamic protist community in a pristine peat bog.

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Hindsight in the relative abundance, metabolic potential and genome dynamics of uncultivated marine archaea from comparative metagenomic analyses of bathypelagic plankton of different oceanic regions

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Horizontal and endosymbiotic gene transfer in early plastid evolution

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Horizontal gene transfer and archaeal origin of deoxyhypusine synthase homologous genes in bacteria

scientific article published in April 2004

Horizontal gene transfer of a chloroplast DnaJ-Fer protein to Thaumarchaeota and the evolutionary history of the DnaK chaperone system in Archaea

scientific article (publication date: 26 November 2012)

Hydrochemistry and microbialites of the alkaline crater lake Alchichica, Mexico

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Hyperdiverse archaea near life limits at the polyextreme geothermal Dallol area

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

In vitro DNA binding of the archaeal protein Sso7d induces negative supercoiling at temperatures typical for thermophilic growth.

scientific article published on May 1998

Independent Size Expansions and Intron Proliferation in Red Algal Plastid and Mitochondrial Genomes

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

Intra- and intergenomic variation of ribosomal RNA operons in concurrent Alteromonas macleodii strains

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Intracellular Ca-carbonate biomineralization is widespread in cyanobacteria

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Isolation of new plasmids from hyperthermophilic Archaea of the order Thermococcales

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Lateral Gene Transfer

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Life cycle and molecular phylogeny of the dinoflagellates Chytriodinium and Dissodinium, ectoparasites of copepod eggs

scientific article published on 8 July 2009

MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF DINOPHYSOID DINOFLAGELLATES: THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF OXYPHYSIS OXYTOXOIDES AND THE DINOPHYSIS HASTATA GROUP (DINOPHYSALES, DINOPHYCEAE)(1).

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Macrofilamentous microbial communities in the metal-rich and acidic River Tinto, Spain

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Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation.

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Marked seasonality and high spatial variability of protist communities in shallow freshwater systems

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Meeting Report: Minutes from EMBO: Ten Years of Comparative Genomics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Metabolic symbiosis at the origin of eukaryotes.

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Metagenome of the Mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum studied by direct and fosmid library 454 pyrosequencing

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Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites

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Metagenomic analysis of mesopelagic Antarctic plankton reveals a novel deltaproteobacterial group

scientific article published in February 2006

Metagenomics of the deep Mediterranean, a warm bathypelagic habitat

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Microbial diversity in the deep-subsurface hydrothermal aquifer feeding the giant gypsum crystal-bearing Naica Mine, Mexico

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Microbial eukaryotes in the suboxic chemosynthetic ecosystem of Movile Cave, Romania

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Microbial methane turnover at Marmara Sea cold seeps: a combined 16S rRNA and lipid biomarker investigation.

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Modern subsurface bacteria in pristine 2.7 Ga-old fossil stromatolite drillcore samples from the Fortescue Group, Western Australia

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Molecular Phylogeny of Paraphelidium letcheri sp. nov. (Aphelida, Opisthosporidia).

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Molecular and morphological characterization of four new ancyromonad genera and proposal for an updated taxonomy of the Ancyromonadida

scientific article published on 22 August 2023

Molecular phylogeny and ultrastructure of Aphelidium aff. melosirae (Aphelida, Opisthosporidia)

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Molecular phylogeny of noctilucoid dinoflagellates (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae)

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Molecular phylogeny of the dinoflagellates Podolampas and Blepharocysta (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae)

scholarly article by Fernando Gómez et al published 3 May 2010 in Phycologia

Molecular phylogeny of the marine dinoflagellate genus Heterodinium (Dinophyceae)

scholarly article by Fernando Gómez et al published 10 April 2012 in European Journal of Phycology

Molecular phylogeny of the ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates erythropsidinium and warnowia (warnowiaceae, dinophyceae).

scientific article published in September 2009

Molecular phylogeny of tintinnid ciliates (Tintinnida, Ciliophora).

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Monophyletic

article in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology

Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Opisthosporidia: New Aphelid Paraphelidium tribonemae gen. et sp. nov.

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Morphological and molecular characterization of a new member of the phylum Rhodelphidia

scientific article published on 7 August 2023

Morphological and phylogenetic diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Algerian hot springs

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Nanoscale detection of organic signatures in carbonate microbialites

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2006)

Neoceratium gen. nov., a new genus for all marine species currently assigned to Ceratium (Dinophyceae).

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New Member of Gromochytriales (Chytridiomycetes)— Apiochytrium granulosporum nov. gen. et sp

scientific article published on 09 December 2018

New haptophyte lineages and multiple independent colonizations of freshwater ecosystems

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New insights into marine group III Euryarchaeota, from dark to light

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

New insights into the phylogenetic position of diplonemids: G+C content bias, differences of evolutionary rate and a new environmental sequence

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Open Questions on the Origin of Eukaryotes

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Pan-oceanic distribution of new highly diverse clades of deep-sea diplonemids

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Pangenome evidence for extensive interdomain horizontal transfer affecting lineage core and shell genes in uncultured planktonic thaumarchaeota and euryarchaeota

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Paralogous Gene

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Parvularia atlantis gen. et sp. nov., a Nucleariid Filose Amoeba (Holomycota, Opisthokonta).

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Performance of the melting seawater-ice elution method on the metabarcoding characterization of benthic protist communities

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic thiolases suggests multiple proteobacterial origins

scientific article published on 16 June 2005

Phylogenetic and ecological diversity of apusomonads, a lineage of deep-branching eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Phylogenomic analysis of kinetoplastids supports that trypanosomatids arose from within bodonids

scientific article published on 28 October 2010

Phylogenomic investigation of phospholipid synthesis in archaea

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Phylotype

Phylum

Physical connections: prokaryotes parasitizing their kin

scientific article published on 22 November 2020

Physicochemical Conditions and Microbial Diversity Associated with the Evaporite Deposits in the Laguna de la Piedra (Salar de Atacama, Chile)

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Phytoplankton diversity and cyanobacterial dominance in a hypereutrophic shallow lake with biologically produced alkaline pH.

scientific article published on 13 December 2003

Planktonic microbial communities from microbialite‐bearing lakes sampled along a salinity‐alkalinity gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Plasmid pGS5 from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus profundus is negatively supercoiled.

scientific article published on September 2000

Polyclonality of concurrent natural populations of Alteromonas macleodii

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Polyubiquitin insertions and the phylogeny of Cercozoa and Rhizaria

scientific article published in August 2005

Present status of the molecular ecology of kathablepharids

scientific article published on 23 January 2006

Prokaryotes, Origin of

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Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community structure in field and cultured microbialites from the alkaline Lake Alchichica (Mexico)

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Protist Evolution: Stealing Genes to Gut It Out.

scientific article published in March 2017

Protocols for the Study of Microbe–Mineral Interactions in Modern Microbialites

Re-evaluation of Amphidiniopsis (Dinophyceae) Morphogroups Based On Phylogenetic Relationships, and Description of Three New Sand-dwelling Species From the NW Mediterranean

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Resilience of Freshwater Communities of Small Microbial Eukaryotes Undergoing Severe Drought Events

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Rooting the domain archaea by phylogenomic analysis supports the foundation of the new kingdom Proteoarchaeota

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

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Secondary Plastids of Euglenids and Chlorarachniophytes Function with a Mix of Genes of Red and Green Algal Ancestry

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Selective forces for the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus

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Silicified Biota in High-Altitude, Geothermally Influenced Ignimbrites at El Tatio Geyser Field, Andean Cordillera (Chile)

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Sinophysis and Pseudophalacroma are Distantly Related to Typical Dinophysoid Dinoflagellates (Dinophysales, Dinophyceae)

scientific article published on 05 December 2011

Sizing chromosomes and megaplasmids in haloarchaea

scientific article published in 1996

Solenicola setigera is the first characterized member of the abundant and cosmopolitan uncultured marine stramenopile group MAST-3.

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Specific carbonate-microbe interactions in the modern microbialites of Lake Alchichica (Mexico)

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Sunlight-exposed biofilm microbial communities are naturally resistant to chernobyl ionizing-radiation levels

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Symbiosis between methanogenic archaea and delta-proteobacteria as the origin of eukaryotes: the syntrophic hypothesis

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Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Ten reasons to exclude viruses from the tree of life

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The Chytrid-like Parasites of Algae Amoeboradix gromovi gen. et sp. nov. and Sanchytrium tribonematis Belong to a New Fungal Lineage.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

The Last Common Ancestor of Modern Cells

The Syntrophy hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotes revisited

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

The Ultrastructure of Sanchytrium tribonematis (Sanchytriaceae, Fungi incertae sedis) Confirms its Close Relationship to Amoeboradix

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

The aphelid-like phagotrophic origins of fungi

The crustacean parasites Ellobiopsis Caullery, 1910 and Thalassomyces Niezabitowski, 1913 form a monophyletic divergent clade within the Alveolata

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The early evolution of lipid membranes and the three domains of life

scientific article published on 11 June 2012

The enigmatic SAR202 cluster up close: shedding light on a globally distributed dark ocean lineage involved in sulfur cycling

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The environmental clade LKM11 and Rozella form the deepest branching clade of fungi

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The extent of protist diversity: insights from molecular ecology of freshwater eukaryotes

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The molecular ecology of microbial eukaryotes unveils a hidden world

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The nucleolar proteome and the (endosymbiotic) origin of the nucleus

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

The place of viruses in biology in light of the metabolism- versus-replication-first debate.

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The rise and fall of Picobiliphytes: how assumed autotrophs turned out to be heterotrophs

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Thermophilic lifestyle for an uncultured archaeon from hydrothermal vents: evidence from environmental genomics

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Time series are critical to understand microbial plankton diversity and ecology

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Toward the monophyly of Haeckel's radiolaria: 18S rRNA environmental data support the sisterhood of polycystinea and acantharea

scientific article published in January 2002

Tracking microbial biodiversity through molecular and genomic ecology

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Unarmoured dinoflagellates with a small hyposome: Torodinium and Lebouridinium gen. nov. for Katodinium glaucum (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae)

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Uncultured Archaea in a hydrothermal microbial assemblage: phylogenetic diversity and characterization of a genome fragment from a euryarchaeote

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Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton

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Unveiling microbial interactions in stratified mat communities from a warm saline shallow pond.

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Viruses in Biology

Wide bacterial diversity associated with tubes of the vent worm Riftia pachyptila

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Yet viruses cannot be included in the tree of life

scientific article published in 2009

Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life

“Missing” protists: a molecular prospective

“Missing” protists: a molecular prospective