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A few cosmopolitan phylotypes dominate planktonic archaeal assemblages in widely different oceanic provinces

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A metagenomic assessment of microbial eukaryotic diversity in the global ocean

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

A method to determine integrated predation in stratified waters

scientific article published in 1994

Accessing the genomic information of unculturable oceanic picoeukaryotes by combining multiple single cells.

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Analysis of environmental 18S ribosomal RNA sequences reveals unknown diversity of the cosmopolitan phylum Telonemia

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Assessing the Diversity and Distribution of Apicomplexans in Host and Free-Living Environments Using High-Throughput Amplicon Data and a Phylogenetically Informed Reference Framework

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Assessing the viral content of uncultured picoeukaryotes in the global-ocean by single cell genomics

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Assessment of microbial plankton diversity as an ecological indicator in the NW Mediterranean coast

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Bacterial community structure associated with a dimethylsulfoniopropionate-producing North Atlantic algal bloom

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Bacterial community structure in a latitudinal gradient of lakes: the roles of spatial versus environmental factors

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Benthic protists: the under-charted majority

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Biogeography of the uncultured marine picoeukaryote MAST-4: temperature-driven distribution patterns

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COVID-19 lockdown moderately increased oligotrophy at a marine coastal site

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Changes in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryal assemblages along a salinity gradient by comparison of genetic fingerprinting methods in a multipond solar saltern

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Changes in bacterial and archaeal assemblages in an equatorial river induced by the water eutrophication of Petit Saut dam reservoir (French Guiana)

scientific article published in 2002

Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium <i>Prochlorococcus</i>

scientific article published on 26 June 2023

Ciliate diversity and distribution across horizontal and vertical scales in the open ocean

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Comparison of different denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis primer sets for the study of marine bacterioplankton communities

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

Constant abundances of ubiquitous uncultured protists in the open sea assessed by automated microscopy

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Crash of a population of the marine heterotrophic flagellate Cafeteria roenbergensis by viral infection

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Culturing bias in marine heterotrophic flagellates analyzed through seawater enrichment incubations

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Cyanobacterial symbionts diverged in the late Cretaceous towards lineage-specific nitrogen fixation factories in single-celled phytoplankton

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DISTRIBUTION, PHYLOGENY, AND GROWTH OF COLD-ADAPTED PICOPRASINOPHYTES IN ARCTIC SEAS

scholarly article by Connie Lovejoy et al published February 2007 in Journal of Phycology

Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities

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Description, host-specificity, and strain selectivity of the dinoflagellate parasite Parvilucifera sinerae sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa).

scientific article published on 9 August 2008

Diatom diversity through HTS-metabarcoding in coastal European seas

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Dibiphytanyl ether lipids in nonthermophilic crenarchaeotes

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Diel changes in bulk and single-cell bacterial heterotrophic activity in winter surface waters of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

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Diel changes in the microstratification of the metalimnetic community in Lake Cisó

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Different processes shape prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic assemblages in the sunlit ocean microbiome

Dinobryon faculiferum (Chrysophyta) in coastal Mediterranean seawater: presence and grazing impact on bacteria

article published in 2010

Discovery of novel intermediate forms redefines the fungal tree of life

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Disentangling marine microbial networks across space

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Disentangling temporal associations in marine microbial networks

scientific article published in 2023

Disentangling the mechanisms shaping the surface ocean microbiota

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Distribution and abundance of uncultured heterotrophic flagellates in the world oceans

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Distribution of the uncultured protist MAST-4 in the Indian Ocean, Drake Passage and Mediterranean Sea assessed by real-time quantitative PCR.

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Diversification and spectral tuning in marine proteorhodopsins

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Diversity and distribution of marine microbial eukaryotes in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas

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Diversity and distribution of unicellular opisthokonts along the European coast analysed using high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Diversity of picoplanktonic prasinophytes assessed by direct nuclear SSU rDNA sequencing of environmental samples and novel isolates retrieved from oceanic and coastal marine ecosystems

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Diversity patterns and activity of uncultured marine heterotrophic flagellates unveiled with pyrosequencing

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Dominant marine heterotrophic flagellates are adapted to natural planktonic bacterial abundances

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages

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Ecological niche partitioning in the picoplanktonic green alga Micromonas pusilla: evidence from environmental surveys using phylogenetic probes

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Emerging diversity within chrysophytes, choanoflagellates and bicosoecids based on molecular surveys

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Environmental Sequencing Provides Reasonable Estimates of the Relative Abundance of Specific Picoeukaryotes

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Episodic meteorological and nutrient-load events as drivers of coastal planktonic ecosystem dynamics: a time-series analysis

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

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Eukaryotic Picoplankton in Surface Oceans

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Eukaryotic versus prokaryotic marine picoplankton ecology

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Evaluation of Alternative High-Throughput Sequencing Methodologies for the Monitoring of Marine Picoplanktonic Biodiversity Based on rRNA Gene Amplicons

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Evaluation of DNA extraction methods from complex phototrophic biofilms.

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Exploring the uncultured microeukaryote majority in the oceans: reevaluation of ribogroups within stramenopiles

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Expression of genes involved in phagocytosis in uncultured heterotrophic flagellates

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Extremely high copy numbers and polymorphisms of the rDNA operon estimated from single cell analysis of oligotrich and peritrich ciliates.

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Factors Controlling the Year-Round Variability in Carbon Flux Through Bacteria in a Coastal Marine System

article by Laura Alonso-Sáez et al published 26 February 2008 in Ecosystems

Functional convergence of microbes associated with temperate marine sponges

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Gene expression during bacterivorous growth of a widespread marine heterotrophic flagellate

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

General patterns of diversity in major marine microeukaryote lineages

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Genetic diversity and habitats of two enigmatic marine alveolate lineages

scientific article published in 2006

Getting specific: making taxonomic and ecological sense of large sequencing data sets

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Global abundance of planktonic heterotrophic protists in the deep ocean.

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Global distribution and vertical patterns of a prymnesiophyte-cyanobacteria obligate symbiosis

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Global patterns and rates of habitat transitions across the eukaryotic tree of life

scientific article published in 2022

Global phylogeography of marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus reveals a distinct partitioning of lineages among oceanic biomes.

scientific article published on 27 September 2007

Grazing rates and functional diversity of uncultured heterotrophic flagellates

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Growth and grazing rate dynamics of major phytoplankton groups in an oligotrophic coastal site

scholarly article by Andrés Gutiérrez-Rodríguez et al published November 2011 in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Gymnodinium litoralis sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), a newly identified bloom-forming dinoflagellate from the NW Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in December 2011

High amino acid osmotrophic incorporation by marine eukaryotic phytoplankton revealed by click chemistry

scholarly article published in January 2024

High-diversity biofilm for the oxidation of sulfide-containing effluents

scientific article published in 2004

Impact of Daphnia pulex on a metalimnetic microbial community

article published in 1994

Important contribution of macroalgae to oceanic carbon sequestration

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Influence of primer mismatch and microdiversity on DGGE results: a case study with SAR11

scientific article published in 2009

Inter-annual recurrence of archaeal assemblages in the coastal NW Mediterranean Sea (Blanes Bay Microbial Observatory)

Large variability of bathypelagic microbial eukaryotic communities across the world's oceans.

scientific article published on 9 October 2015

Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Light conditions affect the measurement of oceanic bacterial production via leucine uptake.

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Linking metagenomics to aquatic microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycles

scientific article published in 2019

Long-term patterns of an interconnected core marine microbiota

scientific article published on 07 May 2022

Low evolutionary diversification in a widespread and abundant uncultured protist (MAST-4).

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

Mapping of picoeucaryotes in marine ecosystems with quantitative PCR of the 18S rRNA gene

scientific article published on 22 December 2004

Marine bacterial community structure resilience to changes in protist predation under phytoplankton bloom conditions

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published on 28 June 2015

Marked changes in diversity and relative activity of picoeukaryotes with depth in the world ocean

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Mediocremonas mediterraneus, a New Member within the Developea

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity

scholarly article (2018)

Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity.

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Metagenome assembled genomes are for eukaryotes too

scientific article published in 2022

Metagenomic retrieval of a ribosomal DNA repeat array from an uncultured marine alveolate

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Microbial eukaryote assemblages and potential novel diversity in four tropical East African Great Lakes

scientific article published in 2021

Microbial eukaryote communities exhibit robust biogeographical patterns along a gradient of Patagonian and Antarctic lakes

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Microbial food web responses to light and nutrients beneath the coastal Arctic Ocean sea ice during the winter–spring transition

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Microeukaryote community in a partial nitritation reactor prior to anammox and an insight into the potential of ciliates as performance bioindicators.

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Microorganisms in a changing ocean

Mixotrophic haptophytes are key bacterial grazers in oligotrophic coastal waters

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Mixotrophy in the bloom-forming genus Phaeocystis and other haptophytes

scientific article published on 28 July 2022

Molecular characterization of activated sludge from a seawater-processing wastewater treatment plant

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Molecular diversity among marine picophytoplankton as revealed by psbA analyses.

scientific article published in March 2003

Molecular diversity and distribution of marine fungi across 130 European environmental samples

scientific article published in November 2015

Nanoplankton assemblages in maritime Antarctic lakes: characterisation and molecular fingerprinting comparison

scientific article published in 2005

New insights into the diversity of marine picoeukaryotes

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Niche adaptation promoted the evolutionary diversification of tiny ocean predators

scientific article published in 2021

Novel Proteorhodopsin variants from the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

scientific article published in October 2003

Optimized routine flow cytometric enumeration of heterotrophic flagellates using SYBR Green I

article published in 2011

PARASITIC SPECIES OF THE GENUSBLASTODINIUM(BLASTODINIPHYCEAE) ARE PERIDINIOID DINOFLAGELLATES

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Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment

scientific article published on 04 February 2022

Patterns of rare and abundant marine microbial eukaryotes

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Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of novel marine stramenopiles

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Phylogenetic and functional diversity of bacterioplankton during Alexandrium spp. blooms

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Phylogenetic diversity and dominant ecological traits of freshwater Antarctic Chrysophyceae

scientific article published on 09 April 2021

Phylogenetic position of the copepod-infesting parasite Syndinium turbo (Dinoflagellata, Syndinea).

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Physiological ecology of a metalimnetic Cryptomonas population: relationships to light, sulfide and nutrients

Picobiliphytes: a marine picoplanktonic algal group with unknown affinities to other eukaryotes

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Picoeukaryotic diversity in an oligotrophic coastal site studied by molecular and culturing approaches

scientific article published in November 2004

Picoeukaryotic diversity in the Gulf of Gabès: variability patterns and relationships to nutrients and water masses

scientific article published in 2018

Predation by ciliates on a metalimnetic Cryptomonas population: feeding rates, impact and effects of vertical migration

Prevalence and microdiversity of Alteromonas macleodii-like microorganisms in different oceanic regions.

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Prokaryotic genetic diversity throughout the salinity gradient of a coastal solar saltern.

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Protistan assemblages across the Indian Ocean, with a specific emphasis on the picoeukaryotes

Quantifying long-term predictability in microbial plankton dynamics

Quantifying long-term recurrence in planktonic microbial eukaryotes

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Rarity in aquatic microbes: placing protists on the map.

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

Recommendations for plankton measurements on the GO-SHIP program with relevance to other sea-going expeditions. SCOR Working Group 154 GO-SHIP Report.

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Roseobacter-like bacteria in red and mediterranean sea aerobic anoxygenic photosynthetic populations

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Seasonal and Spatial Variability of Bacterial and Archaeal Assemblages in the Coastal Waters near Anvers Island, Antarctica

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Seasonal patterns in phytoplankton photosynthetic parameters and primary production at a coastal NW Mediterranean site

scholarly article by Josep M. Gasol et al published 30 September 2016 in Scientia Marina

Seasonality in bacterial diversity in north-west Mediterranean coastal waters: assessment through clone libraries, fingerprinting and FISH.

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Sequence diversity and novelty of natural assemblages of picoeukaryotes from the Indian Ocean

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Single cell ecology

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Single cell genomics yields a wide diversity of small planktonic protists across major ocean ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Single-cell genomics of multiple uncultured stramenopiles reveals underestimated functional diversity across oceans

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Spatial differences in bacterioplankton composition along the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean) assessed by molecular fingerprinting.

scientific article published in July 2000

Taming the smallest predators of the oceans

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Telonemia, a new protist phylum with affinity to chromist lineages

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Temperature regulation of marine heterotrophic prokaryotes increases latitudinally as a breach between bottom-up and top-down controls

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The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote small sub-unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

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The active free-living bathypelagic microbiome is largely dominated by rare surface taxa

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The others: our biased perspective of eukaryotic genomes

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The phylogenetic and ecological context of cultured and whole genome-sequenced planktonic bacteria from the coastal NW Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Unveiling new microbial eukaryotes in the surface ocean

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Unveiling the organisms behind novel eukaryotic ribosomal DNA sequences from the ocean

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Unveiling the role and life strategies of viruses from the surface to the dark ocean

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Unveiling trophic functions of uncultured protist taxa by incubation experiments in the brackish Baltic Sea

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Vertical distribution of major photosynthetic picoeukaryotic groups in stratified marine waters

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata).

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