List of works - Giulio Petroni

"Candidatus Cryptoprodotis polytropus," a novel Rickettsia-like organism in the ciliated protist Pseudomicrothorax dubius (Ciliophora, Nassophorea).

scientific article

"Candidatus Defluviella procrastinata" and "Candidatus Cyrtobacter zanobii", two novel ciliate endosymbionts belonging to the "Midichloria clade"

scientific article published on 08 January 2013

"Candidatus Fokinia solitaria", a Novel "Stand-Alone" Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales).

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

"Candidatus Gortzia shahrazadis", a Novel Endosymbiont of Paramecium multimicronucleatum and a Revision of the Biogeographical Distribution of Holospora-Like Bacteria

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

"Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymb

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

"Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria

scientific article

"Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis", a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

"Candidatus anadelfobacter veles" and "Candidatus cyrtobacter comes," two new rickettsiales species hosted by the protist ciliate Euplotes harpa (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

scientific article published on 30 April 2010

'Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila' gen. nov., sp. nov.: considerations on evolutionary history, host range and shift of early divergent rickettsiae

scientific article

A House for Two--Double Bacterial Infection in Euplotes woodruffi Sq1 (Ciliophora, Euplotia) Sampled in Southeastern Brazil.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

A New Ciboria sp. for Soil Mycoremediation and the Bacterial Contribution to the Depletion of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons

scientific article published on 08 June 2021

A bacterium belonging to the Rickettsiaceae family inhabits the cytoplasm of the marine ciliate Diophrys appendiculata (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

A molecular approach to the tangled intrageneric relationships underlying phylogeny in Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

scientific article

A multidisciplinary approach to describe protists: a morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular study on Peritromus kahli Villeneuve-Brachon, 1940 (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

scientific article published in January 2004

A multidisciplinary approach to describe protists: redescriptions of Novistrombidium testaceum Anigstein 1914 and Strombidium inclinatum Montagnes, Taylor, and Lynn 1990 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichia).

scientific article

Apofrontonia dohrni sp. n. and the phylogenetic relationships within Peniculia (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

scientific article published in July 2006

Assessment of pollution impact on biological activity and structure of seabed bacterial communities in the Port of Livorno (Italy)

article

Bacterial communities in polluted seabed sediments: a molecular biology assay in Leghorn Harbor

scientific article published on 08 October 2013

Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: origin and tangled evolutionary path of an obligate microbial association

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Biofouling of reverse osmosis membranes used in river water purification for drinking purposes: analysis of microbial populations.

scientific article

Characterization and comparison of bacterial communities selected in conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactor pilot plants: a focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes bacterial phyla.

scientific article

Characterization and evolution of cell division and cell wall synthesis genes in the bacterial phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and phylogenetic comparison with rRNA genes

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

Characterization of "Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis" from the cytoplasm of Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and emended description of the family Francisellaceae

scientific article published on 29 August 2012

Characterization of bacterial operons consisting of two tubulins and a kinesin-like gene by the novel Two-Step Gene Walking method

scientific article

Ciliate communities and hidden biodiversity in freshwater biotopes of the Pistoia province (Tuscany, Italy).

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Coexistence of tubulins and ftsZ in different Prosthecobacter species

scientific article published on 4 April 2007

Complex life cycle, broad host range and adaptation strategy of the intranuclear Paramecium symbiont Preeria caryophila comb. nov.

scientific article

Critical revision of the family Plagiopylidae (Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of two novel species, Plagiopyla ramani and Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, and redescription of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 from India

article by Venkatamahesh Nitla et al published 11 September 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Cryptic Diversity in Paramecium multimicronucleatum Revealed with a Polyphasic Approach

scientific article published on 05 May 2022

Defensive extrusive ectosymbionts of Euplotidium (Ciliophora) that contain microtubule-like structures are bacteria related to Verrucomicrobia

scholarly article

Degradation of BTEX mixture by a new Pseudomonas putida strain: role of the quorum sensing in the modulation of the upper BTEX oxidative pathway

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Deianiraea, an extracellular bacterium associated with the ciliate Paramecium, suggests an alternative scenario for the evolution of Rickettsiales

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Detection of a novel subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as endosymbiont of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi.

scientific article published on 26 November 2010

Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts ("Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis" and "Candidatus Fokinia cryptica") Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2016)

Distinguishing Activities in the Photodynamic Arsenals of the Pigmented Ciliates Blepharisma sinuosum Sawaya, 1940 and Blepharisma japonicum Suzuki, 1954 (Ciliophora: Heterotrichea)

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Diversity and environmental distribution of the cosmopolitan endosymbiont "Candidatus Megaira"

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Documentation of a new hypotrich species in the family Amphisiellidae, Lamtostyla gui n. sp. (Protista, Ciliophora) using a multidisciplinary approach

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Effect of cellulose as co-substrate on old landfill leachate treatment using white-rot fungi

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Endosymbiosis in statu nascendi: close phylogenetic relationship between obligately endosymbiotic and obligately free-living Polynucleobacter strains (Betaproteobacteria).

scientific article published in February 2007

Evaluation of Enrichment Protocols for Bacterial Endosymbionts of Ciliates by Real-Time PCR.

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Exploring K2G30 Genome: A High Bacterial Cellulose Producing Strain in Glucose and Mannitol Based Media

article

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Flagellar movement in two bacteria of the family rickettsiaceae: a re-evaluation of motility in an evolutionary perspective

scientific article

Focusing on genera to improve species identification: revised systematics of the ciliate Spirostomum

scientific article

Free-living ciliates as potential reservoirs for eukaryotic parasites: occurrence of a trypanosomatid in the macronucleus of Euplotes encysticus

scientific article published on 28 April 2014

Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter.

scientific article

Genetic Codes with No Dedicated Stop Codon: Context-Dependent Translation Termination

scientific article

Genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of K1G4: a new Komagataeibacter strain producing bacterial cellulose from different carbon sources

scientific article published on 25 January 2020

Harmful Effect of Rheinheimera sp. EpRS3 (Gammaproteobacteria) Against the Protist Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea): Insights Into the Ecological Role of Antimicrobial Compounds From Environmental Bacterial Strains

scientific article published in 2019

High degree of specificity in the association between symbiotic betaproteobacteria and the host Euplotes (Ciliophora, Euplotia).

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Host and symbiont intraspecific variability: The case of Paramecium calkinsi and "Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis".

scientific article published on 9 December 2017

Host association and intracellularity evolved multiple times independently in the Rickettsiales

scientific article published on 6 February 2024

Hydrocarbonoclastic Ascomycetes to enhance co-composting of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) contaminated dredged sediments and lignocellulosic matrices

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Identification of the bacteria associated to the phycosphere of the Chlorella-like strain SEC_LI_ChL_1

scientific article published in 2022

Identification of the bacterial endosymbionts of the marine ciliate Euplotes magnicirratus (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) and proposal of 'Candidatus Devosia euplotis'

scientific article

In situ identification by fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes of morphologically similar, closely related ciliate species.

scientific article published on 20 December 2002

Large-scale phylogenomic analysis reveals the phylogenetic position of the problematic taxon Protocruzia and unravels the deep phylogenetic affinities of the ciliate lineages

scientific article

Microbial Consortium Associated with the Antarctic Marine Ciliate Euplotes focardii: An Investigation from Genomic Sequences

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Microtubules in bacteria: Ancient tubulins build a five-protofilament homolog of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton

scientific article

Molecular characterization of the obligate endosymbiont "Caedibacter macronucleorum" Fokin and Görtz, 1993 and of its host Paramecium duboscqui strain Ku4-8.

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of four Remanella species (Protozoa, Ciliophora): A flagship genus of karyorelictean ciliates, with descriptions of two new species

scientific article published in January 2022

Molecular phylogeny of unculturable Karyorelictea (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

scientific article published in 2009

Molecular systematics and ultrastructural characterization of a forgotten species: Chattonidium setense (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

scientific article published on 12 February 2006

Morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular characterization of Euplotidium rosati n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida) from Guam

scientific article

Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of Gruberia lanceolata (Gruber 1884) (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

scientific article published on 10 June 2018

Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the ciliate Sonderia vorax with insights into the systematics of order Plagiopylida

scientific article published in 2013

Morphology, ultrastructure, genomics, and phylogeny of Euplotes vanleeuwenhoeki sp. nov. and its ultra-reduced endosymbiont "Candidatus Pinguicoccus supinus" sp. nov

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Multidisciplinary characterization of the new species Copemetopus mystakophoros and its symbionts with a proposal for the new class Copemetopea (Alveolata: Ciliophora)

scientific article published in 2023

Multidisciplinary investigation on the catfish parasite Hamatopeduncularia Yamaguti, 1953 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae): description of two new species from India, and phylogenetic considerations ⬇️

Nitrifying biomass characterization and monitoring during bioaugmentation in a membrane bioreactor

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

Ozonation effects for excess sludge reduction on bacterial communities composition in a full-scale activated sludge plant for domestic wastewater treatment

scientific article published in May 2014

Parablepharisma (Ciliophora) is not a Heterotrich: A Phylogenetic and Morphological Study with the Proposal of New Taxa

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

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

scientific article published on 25 January 2022

Polynucleobacter bacteria in the brackish-water species Euplotes harpa (Ciliata Hypotrichia).

scientific article

Polynucleobacter necessarius, a model for genome reduction in both free-living and symbiotic bacteria.

scientific article

Preliminary data on the distribution, morphology and genetics of white-clawed crayfish and on their ectosymbionts in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy)

scientific article published in 2018

Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 June 2024

Rare Freshwater Ciliate Paramecium chlorelligerum Kahl, 1935 and Its Macronuclear Symbiotic Bacterium "Candidatus Holospora parva"

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Rediscovering the genus Lyticum, multiflagellated symbionts of the order Rickettsiales

scientific article

Response of the bacterial symbiont Holospora caryophila to different growth conditions of its host

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Revised Systematics of Holospora-Like Bacteria and Characterization of “Candidatus Gortzia infectiva”, a Novel Macronuclear Symbiont of Paramecium jenningsi ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Role of bacterivorous organisms on fungal-based systems for natural tannin degradation

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

SeqDeχ: A Sequence Deconvolution Tool for Genome Separation of Endosymbionts From Mixed Sequencing Samples

scientific article published on 19 September 2019

Strengths and Biases of High-Throughput Sequencing Data in the Characterization of Freshwater Ciliate Microbiomes.

scientific article

Sulphide oxidation to elemental sulphur in a membrane bioreactor: performance and characterization of the selected microbial sulphur-oxidizing community

scientific article

Survey of Paramecium duboscqui using three markers and assessment of the molecular variability in the genus Paramecium

scientific article published on 13 September 2012

Symbiont replacement between bacteria of different classes reveals additional layers of complexity in the evolution of symbiosis in the ciliate Euplotes.

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Temporal characterization of bacterial communities in a phytoremediation pilot plant aimed at decontaminating polluted sediments dredged from Leghorn harbor, Italy.

scientific article

The Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Fokinia solitaria": Insights on Reductive Evolution in Rickettsiales.

scientific article published in April 2018

The Hidden World of Rickettsiales Symbionts: "Candidatus Spectririckettsia obscura," a Novel Bacterium Found in Brazilian and Indian Paramecium caudatum

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

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

scientific article

The Obligate Symbiont "Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila" Has Variable Effects on the Growth of Different Host Species

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

The core microbiome of sessile ciliate Stentor coeruleus is not shaped by the environment

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

The first case of microsporidiosis in Paramecium

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

The neotypification of Frontonia vernalis (Ehrenberg, 1833) Ehrenberg, 1838 and the description of Frontonia paravernalis sp. nov. trigger a critical revision of frontoniid systematics

scientific article published on 8 March 2021

The passive yet successful way of planktonic life: genomic and experimental analysis of the ecology of a free-living polynucleobacter population

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Tracing the role of R-bodies in the killer trait: absence of toxicity of R-body producing recombinant E. coli on paramecia

scientific article

Well-established mutualistic associations between ciliates and prokaryotes might be more widespread and diversified than so far supposed

scientific article published on 18 August 2005

‘ Candidatus Gromoviella agglomerans’, a novel intracellular Holosporaceae parasite of the ciliate Paramecium showing marked genome reduction

‘ Candidatus Sarmatiella mevalonica’ endosymbiont of the ciliate Paramecium provides insights on evolutionary plasticity among Rickettsiales

scientific article published on 26 January 2021

“Candidatus Intestinibacterium parameciiphilum”—member of the “Candidatus Paracaedibacteraceae” family (Alphaproteobacteria, Holosporales) inhabiting the ciliated protist Paramecium

scientific article published in 2023

List of works by Giulio Petroni

"Candidatus Cryptoprodotis polytropus," a novel Rickettsia-like organism in the ciliated protist Pseudomicrothorax dubius (Ciliophora, Nassophorea).

"Candidatus Defluviella procrastinata" and "Candidatus Cyrtobacter zanobii", two novel ciliate endosymbionts belonging to the "Midichloria clade"

"Candidatus Fokinia solitaria", a Novel "Stand-Alone" Symbiotic Lineage of Midichloriaceae (Rickettsiales).

"Candidatus Gortzia shahrazadis", a Novel Endosymbiont of Paramecium multimicronucleatum and a Revision of the Biogeographical Distribution of Holospora-Like Bacteria

"Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymb

"Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria

"Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis", a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica

"Candidatus anadelfobacter veles" and "Candidatus cyrtobacter comes," two new rickettsiales species hosted by the protist ciliate Euplotes harpa (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

'Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila' gen. nov., sp. nov.: considerations on evolutionary history, host range and shift of early divergent rickettsiae

A House for Two--Double Bacterial Infection in Euplotes woodruffi Sq1 (Ciliophora, Euplotia) Sampled in Southeastern Brazil.

A New <i>Ciboria</i> sp. for Soil Mycoremediation and the Bacterial Contribution to the Depletion of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons

A bacterium belonging to the Rickettsiaceae family inhabits the cytoplasm of the marine ciliate Diophrys appendiculata (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

A molecular approach to the tangled intrageneric relationships underlying phylogeny in Euplotes (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea).

A multidisciplinary approach to describe protists: a morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular study on Peritromus kahli Villeneuve-Brachon, 1940 (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

A multidisciplinary approach to describe protists: redescriptions of Novistrombidium testaceum Anigstein 1914 and Strombidium inclinatum Montagnes, Taylor, and Lynn 1990 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichia).

Apofrontonia dohrni sp. n. and the phylogenetic relationships within Peniculia (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

Assessment of pollution impact on biological activity and structure of seabed bacterial communities in the Port of Livorno (Italy)

Bacterial communities in polluted seabed sediments: a molecular biology assay in Leghorn Harbor

Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: origin and tangled evolutionary path of an obligate microbial association

Biofouling of reverse osmosis membranes used in river water purification for drinking purposes: analysis of microbial populations.

Characterization and comparison of bacterial communities selected in conventional activated sludge and membrane bioreactor pilot plants: a focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes bacterial phyla.

Characterization and evolution of cell division and cell wall synthesis genes in the bacterial phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and phylogenetic comparison with rRNA genes

Characterization of "Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis" from the cytoplasm of Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) and emended description of the family Francisellaceae

Characterization of bacterial operons consisting of two tubulins and a kinesin-like gene by the novel Two-Step Gene Walking method

Ciliate communities and hidden biodiversity in freshwater biotopes of the Pistoia province (Tuscany, Italy).

Coexistence of tubulins and ftsZ in different Prosthecobacter species

Complex life cycle, broad host range and adaptation strategy of the intranuclear Paramecium symbiont Preeria caryophila comb. nov.

Critical revision of the family Plagiopylidae (Ciliophora: Plagiopylea), including the description of two novel species, Plagiopyla ramani and Plagiopyla narasimhamurtii, and redescription of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 from India

Cryptic Diversity in <i>Paramecium multimicronucleatum</i> Revealed with a Polyphasic Approach

Defensive extrusive ectosymbionts of Euplotidium (Ciliophora) that contain microtubule-like structures are bacteria related to Verrucomicrobia

Degradation of BTEX mixture by a new Pseudomonas putida strain: role of the quorum sensing in the modulation of the upper BTEX oxidative pathway

Deianiraea, an extracellular bacterium associated with the ciliate Paramecium, suggests an alternative scenario for the evolution of Rickettsiales

Detection of a novel subspecies of Francisella noatunensis as endosymbiont of the ciliate Euplotes raikovi.

Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts ("Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis" and "Candidatus Fokinia cryptica") Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia

Distinguishing Activities in the Photodynamic Arsenals of the Pigmented Ciliates Blepharisma sinuosum Sawaya, 1940 and Blepharisma japonicum Suzuki, 1954 (Ciliophora: Heterotrichea)

Diversity and environmental distribution of the cosmopolitan endosymbiont "Candidatus Megaira"

Documentation of a new hypotrich species in the family Amphisiellidae, Lamtostyla gui n. sp. (Protista, Ciliophora) using a multidisciplinary approach

Effect of cellulose as co-substrate on old landfill leachate treatment using white-rot fungi

Endosymbiosis in statu nascendi: close phylogenetic relationship between obligately endosymbiotic and obligately free-living Polynucleobacter strains (Betaproteobacteria).

Evaluation of Enrichment Protocols for Bacterial Endosymbionts of Ciliates by Real-Time PCR.

Exploring K2G30 Genome: A High Bacterial Cellulose Producing Strain in Glucose and Mannitol Based Media

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase

Flagellar movement in two bacteria of the family rickettsiaceae: a re-evaluation of motility in an evolutionary perspective

Focusing on genera to improve species identification: revised systematics of the ciliate Spirostomum

Free-living ciliates as potential reservoirs for eukaryotic parasites: occurrence of a trypanosomatid in the macronucleus of Euplotes encysticus

Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter.

Genetic Codes with No Dedicated Stop Codon: Context-Dependent Translation Termination

Genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of K1G4: a new Komagataeibacter strain producing bacterial cellulose from different carbon sources

Harmful Effect of Rheinheimera sp. EpRS3 (Gammaproteobacteria) Against the Protist Euplotes aediculatus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea): Insights Into the Ecological Role of Antimicrobial Compounds From Environmental Bacterial Strains

High degree of specificity in the association between symbiotic betaproteobacteria and the host Euplotes (Ciliophora, Euplotia).

Host and symbiont intraspecific variability: The case of Paramecium calkinsi and "Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis".

Host association and intracellularity evolved multiple times independently in the Rickettsiales

Hydrocarbonoclastic Ascomycetes to enhance co-composting of total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) contaminated dredged sediments and lignocellulosic matrices

Identification of the bacteria associated to the phycosphere of the Chlorella-like strain SEC_LI_ChL_1

Identification of the bacterial endosymbionts of the marine ciliate Euplotes magnicirratus (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) and proposal of 'Candidatus Devosia euplotis'

In situ identification by fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes of morphologically similar, closely related ciliate species.

Large-scale phylogenomic analysis reveals the phylogenetic position of the problematic taxon Protocruzia and unravels the deep phylogenetic affinities of the ciliate lineages

Microbial Consortium Associated with the Antarctic Marine Ciliate Euplotes focardii: An Investigation from Genomic Sequences

Microtubules in bacteria: Ancient tubulins build a five-protofilament homolog of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton

Molecular characterization of the obligate endosymbiont "Caedibacter macronucleorum" Fokin and Görtz, 1993 and of its host Paramecium duboscqui strain Ku4-8.

Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of four Remanella species (Protozoa, Ciliophora): A flagship genus of karyorelictean ciliates, with descriptions of two new species

Molecular phylogeny of unculturable Karyorelictea (Alveolata, Ciliophora)

Molecular systematics and ultrastructural characterization of a forgotten species: Chattonidium setense (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea).

Morphological, ultrastructural, and molecular characterization of Euplotidium rosati n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida) from Guam

Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of Gruberia lanceolata (Gruber 1884) (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Morphology, ultrastructure, and molecular phylogeny of the ciliate Sonderia vorax with insights into the systematics of order Plagiopylida

Morphology, ultrastructure, genomics, and phylogeny of Euplotes vanleeuwenhoeki sp. nov. and its ultra-reduced endosymbiont "Candidatus Pinguicoccus supinus" sp. nov

Multidisciplinary characterization of the new species <b>Copemetopus mystakophoros</b> and its symbionts with a proposal for the new class Copemetopea (Alveolata: Ciliophora)

Multidisciplinary investigation on the catfish parasite Hamatopeduncularia Yamaguti, 1953 (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae): description of two new species from India, and phylogenetic considerations ⬇️

Nitrifying biomass characterization and monitoring during bioaugmentation in a membrane bioreactor

Ozonation effects for excess sludge reduction on bacterial communities composition in a full-scale activated sludge plant for domestic wastewater treatment

Parablepharisma (Ciliophora) is not a Heterotrich: A Phylogenetic and Morphological Study with the Proposal of New Taxa

Phylogenetic relationships among endosymbiotic R-body producer: Bacteria providing their host the killer trait.

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

Polynucleobacter bacteria in the brackish-water species Euplotes harpa (Ciliata Hypotrichia).

Polynucleobacter necessarius, a model for genome reduction in both free-living and symbiotic bacteria.

Preliminary data on the distribution, morphology and genetics of white-clawed crayfish and on their ectosymbionts in Lunigiana (Tuscany, Italy)

Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal ⬇️

Rare Freshwater Ciliate Paramecium chlorelligerum Kahl, 1935 and Its Macronuclear Symbiotic Bacterium "Candidatus Holospora parva"