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187-gene phylogeny of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa reveals a new class (Cutosea) of deep-branching, ultrastructurally unique, enveloped marine Lobosa and clarifies amoeba evolution

scientific article

18S rDNA phylogeny of lamproderma and allied genera (Stemonitales, Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa).

scientific article

18S ribosomal RNA gene sequences of Cochliopodium (Himatismenida) and the phylogeny of Amoebozoa.

scientific article

A higher level classification of all living organisms

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

A revised classification of naked lobose amoebae (Amoebozoa: lobosa)

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

A revised six-kingdom system of life

scientific article

Analyses of RNA Polymerase II genes from free-living protists: phylogeny, long branch attraction, and the eukaryotic big bang

scientific article

Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution

scientific article

Chromalveolate diversity and cell megaevolution: Interplay of membranes, genomes and cytoskeleton

Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Combined heat shock protein 90 and ribosomal RNA sequence phylogeny supports multiple replacements of dinoflagellate plastids

scientific article published in May 2006

Concept of a bacterium still valid in prokaryote debate

scientific article published in Nature

Corallochytrium, an enigmatic non-flagellate protozoan related to choanoflagellates

Correct identification of species makes the amoebozoan rRNA tree congruent with morphology for the order Leptomyxida Page 1987; with description of Acramoeba dendroida n. g., n. sp., originally misidentified as 'Gephyramoeba sp.'

scientific article

Correction to 'Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences-the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion'.

scientific article published on April 2017

Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Culturing and environmental DNA sequencing uncover hidden kinetoplastid biodiversity and a major marine clade within ancestrally freshwater Neobodo designis

scientific article published in November 2005

DNA evidence for global dispersal and probable endemicity of protozoa

scientific article published in 2007

Deep phylogeny and evolution of slime moulds (mycetozoa).

scientific article

Deep phylogeny, ancestral groups and the four ages of life

scientific article

Discrimination between six species of Theileria using oligonucleotide probes which detect small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences

scientific article published on August 1993

Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa ⬇️

scientific article published on October 22, 2012

Economy, speed and size matter: evolutionary forces driving nuclear genome miniaturization and expansion

scientific article

Euglenoid pellicle morphogenesis and evolution in light of comparative ultrastructure and trypanosomatid biology: Semi-conservative microtubule/strip duplication, strip shaping and transformation

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Eukaryote kingdoms: Seven or nine? ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1981

Evolution of dinoflagellate unigenic minicircles and the partially concerted divergence of their putative replicon origins

scientific article

Evolutionary origins of Hsp90 chaperones and a deep paralogy in their bacterial ancestors

scientific article

Evolutionary position of breviate amoebae and the primary eukaryote divergence

scientific article

Exploring slime mould diversity in high-altitude forests and grasslands by environmental RNA analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on December 17, 2012

Genetic diversity of goniomonads: an ancient divergence between marine and freshwater species

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

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Gregarine site-heterogeneous 18S rDNA trees, revision of gregarine higher classification, and the evolutionary diversification of Sporozoa

scientific article published on 30 July 2014

Helkesimastix marina n. sp. (Cercozoa: Sainouroidea superfam. n.) a gliding zooflagellate of novel ultrastructure and unusual ciliary behaviour

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

High throughput sequencing of microbial eukaryotes in Lake Baikal reveals ecologically differentiated communities and novel evolutionary radiations

scientific article

Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world?

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2006)

Invalidation of Hyperamoeba by transferring its species to other genera of Myxogastria

scientific article

Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista and the eozoan root of the eukaryotic tree

scientific article

Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal that two enigmatic protist lineages, telonemia and centroheliozoa, are related to photosynthetic chromalveolates

scientific article

Megaphylogeny, cell body plans, adaptive zones: causes and timing of eukaryote basal radiations

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Microbila Muddles

Microheliella maris (Microhelida ord. n.), an ultrastructurally highly distinctive new axopodial protist species and genus, and the unity of phylum Heliozoa.

scientific article

Mixed heterolobosean and novel gregarine lineage genes from culture ATCC 50646: Long-branch artefacts, not lateral gene transfer, distort α-tubulin phylogeny

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Molecular data and the evolutionary history of dinoflagellates

article by Juan F. Saldarriaga et al published May 2004 in European Journal of Protistology

Molecular phylogeny of Amoebozoa and the evolutionary significance of the unikont Phalansterium

scientific article (publication date: May 2004)

Molecular phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and kinetid patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa).

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of centrohelid heliozoa, a novel lineage of bikont eukaryotes that arose by ciliary loss

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Molecular phylogeny, scale evolution and taxonomy of centrohelid heliozoa

scientific article

Morphology and phylogeny of Sainouron acronematica sp. n. and the ultrastructural unity of Cercozoa

scientific article

Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria)

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals ⬇️

scientific article published in 2008

Multigene eukaryote phylogeny reveals the likely protozoan ancestors of opisthokonts (animals, fungi, choanozoans) and Amoebozoa.

scientific article

Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria.

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Multigene phylogeny resolves deep branching of Amoebozoa

scientific article

Multiple origins of Heliozoa from flagellate ancestors: New cryptist subphylum Corbihelia, superclass Corbistoma, and monophyly of Haptista, Cryptista, Hacrobia and Chromista

scientific article

Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes

scientific article published in August 2005

Neomonada and the origin of animals and fungi

New Genera, Species, and Improved Phylogeny of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 23, 2011

New phagotrophic euglenoid species (new genus Decastava; Scytomonas saepesedens; Entosiphon oblongum), Hsp90 introns, and putative euglenoid Hsp90 pre-mRNA insertional editing

scientific article

Novel Cultured Protists Identify Deep-branching Environmental DNA Clades of Cercozoa: New Genera Tremula, Micrometopion, Minimassisteria, Nudifila, Peregrinia ⬇️

scientific article published on February 4, 2011

Only six kingdoms of life

scientific article

Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences-the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion

scientific article

Origin of mitochondria by intracellular enslavement of a photosynthetic purple bacterium

scholarly article by Thomas Cavalier-Smith published 7 August 2006 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution

scientific article

Oxnerella micra sp. n. (Oxnerellidae fam. n.), a tiny naked centrohelid, and the diversity and evolution of heliozoa ⬇️

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Paracercomonas kinetid ultrastructure, origins of the body plan of Cercomonadida, and cytoskeleton evolution in Cercozoa

scientific article published on 12 August 2011

Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotes using heat-shock protein Hsp90.

scientific article published in October 2003

Phylogeny and classification of Cercomonadida (Protozoa, Cercozoa): Cercomonas, Eocercomonas, Paracercomonas, and Cavernomonas gen. nov.

scientific article

Phylogeny and classification of phylum Cercozoa (Protozoa)

scientific article (publication date: October 2003)

Phylogeny and evolution of Planomonadida (Sulcozoa): Eight new species and new genera Fabomonas and Nutomonas ⬇️

scientific article published on January 29, 2013

Phylogeny and evolution of apusomonadida (protozoa: apusozoa): new genera and species

scientific article

Phylogeny and megasystematics of phagotrophic heterokonts (kingdom Chromista)

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Phylogeny of Choanozoa, Apusozoa, and Other Protozoa and Early Eukaryote Megaevolution ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes ⬇️

scientific article published on December 4, 2012

Phylogeny of novel naked Filose and Reticulose Cercozoa: Granofilosea cl. n. and Proteomyxidea revised

scientific article

Phylogeny, evolution, and taxonomy of vannellid amoebae

scientific article

Phylogeny, taxonomy, and astounding genetic diversity of glissomonadida ord. nov., the dominant gliding zooflagellates in soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa).

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Phylum-specific environmental DNA analysis reveals remarkably high global biodiversity of Cercozoa (Protozoa).

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Planomonadida ord. nov. (Apusozoa): ultrastructural affinity with Micronuclearia podoventralis and deep divergences within Planomonas gen. nov

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Polyubiquitin insertions and the phylogeny of Cercozoa and Rhizaria

scientific article published in August 2005

Predation and eukaryote cell origins: a coevolutionary perspective

scientific article published on 18 October 2008

Protist phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa

scholarly article by Thomas Cavalier-Smith published January 2003 in European Journal of Protistology

Ribosomal RNA Evidence for Chloroplast Loss within Heterokonta: Pedinellid Relationships and a Revised Classification of Ochristan Algae

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Ribosomal RNA phylogeny of bodonid and diplonemid flagellates and the evolution of euglenozoa

scientific article

Rigifila ramosa n. gen., n. sp., a filose apusozoan with a distinctive pellicle, is related to Micronuclearia.

scientific article

Rooting the eukaryote tree by using a derived gene fusion

scientific article

Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses

scientific article published in 2006

Scale evolution in Paraphysomonadida (Chrysophyceae): Sequence phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Paraphysomonas, new genus Clathromonas, and 25 new species

scientific article

Scale evolution, sequence phylogeny, and taxonomy of thaumatomonad Cercozoa: 11 new species and new genera Scutellomonas, Cowlomonas, Thaumatospina and Ovaloplaca

scientific article

Semimorula liquescens is a modified echinostelid myxomycete (Mycetozoa).

scientific article published in November 2009

Symbiogenesis: Mechanisms, Evolutionary Consequences, and Systematic Implications

scientific article

The Protozoan Phylum Opalozoa

scientific article published in 1993

The highly reduced genome of an enslaved algal nucleus

scientific article

The neomuran revolution and phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and cilia in the light of intracellular coevolution and a revised tree of life

scientific article

The novel marine gliding zooflagellate genus Mantamonas (Mantamonadida ord. n.: Apusozoa)

scientific article

The root of the eukaryote tree pinpointed

scientific article (publication date: 2 September 2003)

The tiny enslaved genome of a rhizarian alga

scholarly article

The zooflagellates Stephanopogon and Percolomonas are a clade (class Percolatea: Phylum Percolozoa)

scientific article

Two-Gene Phylogeny of Bright-Spored Myxomycetes (Slime Moulds, Superorder Lucisporidia) ⬇️

scientific article published on May 7, 2013

Ultrastructure of Allapsa vibrans and the Body Plan of Glissomonadida (Cercozoa) ⬇️

scientific article published on December 29, 2011

Ultrastructure of Diplophrys parva, a New Small Freshwater Species, and a Revised Analysis of Labyrinthulea (Heterokonta) ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Using environmental niche models to test the 'everything is everywhere' hypothesis for Badhamia.

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Vendozoa and selective forces on animal origin and early diversification: reply to Dufour and McIlroy (2017).

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Zooflagellate Phylogeny and the Systematics of Protozoa

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

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