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<i>Anaeramoeba pumila</i> sp. nov. and <i>Anaeramoeba</i> sp. OCE22C represent two novel types of symbiosis of Anaeramoebae and prokaryotes

scientific article published on 6 November 2023

A complex of three new white-spored, sympatric, and host range limited Geosmithia species

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A new lineage of non-photosynthetic green algae with extreme organellar genomes

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

A wide diversity of previously undetected free-living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats.

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Affiliation of Cochlosoma to trichomonads confirmed by phylogenetic analysis of the small-subunit rRNA gene and a new family concept of the order Trichomonadida

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Anaeramoebidae fam. nov., a Novel Lineage of Anaerobic Amoebae and Amoeboflagellates of Uncertain Phylogenetic Position.

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Anaerobic ciliates as a model group for studying symbioses in oxygen‐depleted environments

scientific article published on 3 May 2022

Analysis of diverse eukaryotes suggests the existence of an ancestral mitochondrial apparatus derived from the bacterial type II secretion system

scientific article published on 19 May 2021

Archamoebae

Arginine deiminase pathway enzymes: evolutionary history in metamonads and other eukaryotes

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Avian Louse Flies and Their Trypanosomes: New Vectors, New Lineages and Host–Parasite Associations

scientific article published in 2022

Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae.

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Biodiversity of avian trypanosomes

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Bit by bit toward the diversity of metopids: Description of the genus Pidimetopus n. gen. (Ciliophora: Armophorea)

Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) as vectors of avian trypanosomes.

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

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Combined Culture-Based and Culture-Independent Approaches Provide Insights into Diversity of Jakobids, an Extremely Plesiomorphic Eukaryotic Lineage

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Corrigendum to "Dactylomonas gen. nov., a Novel Lineage of Heterolobosean Flagellates with Unique Ultrastructure, Closely Related to the Amoeba Selenaion koniopes Park, De Jonckheere & Simpson, 2012"

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Corrigendum to "Tropidoatractidae fam. nov., a deep branching lineage of Metopida (Armophorea, Ciliophora) found in diverse habitats and possessing prokaryotic symbionts" [Protist 169 (July (3)) (2018) 362-405]

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Creneis carolina gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea), a novel marine anaerobic protist with strikingly derived morphology and life cycle.

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Critical analysis of the topology and rooting of the parabasalian 16S rRNA tree

scientific article published in September 2004

Critical taxonomic revision of Parabasalids with description of one new genus and three new species

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Cryptic diversity of free-living parabasalids, Pseudotrichomonas keilini and Lacusteria cypriaca n. g., n. sp., as inferred from small subunit rDNA sequences.

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Cryptic species within the Tetratrichomonas gallinarum species complex revealed by molecular polymorphism

scientific article published on 16 December 2004

Dactylomonas gen. nov., a Novel Lineage of Heterolobosean Flagellates with Unique Ultrastructure, Closely Related to the Amoeba Selenaion koniopes Park, De Jonckheere & Simpson, 2012

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Description of Three New Genera of Metopidae (metopida, ciliophora): Pileometopus gen. Nov., Castula gen. Nov., And Longitaenia gen. Nov., with Notes on the Phylogeny and Cryptic Diversity of Metopid Ciliates

scientific article published on 30 May 2020

Divergent marine anaerobic ciliates harbor closely related Methanocorpusculum endosymbionts

scientific article published in 2024

Diversity and Phylogenetic Position of Bothrostoma Stokes, 1887 (Ciliophora: Metopida), with Description of Four New Species

scientific article published in 2022

Diversity, evolution and molecular systematics of the Psalteriomonadidae, the main lineage of anaerobic/microaerophilic heteroloboseans (excavata: discoba).

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Enigmatic Phytomyxid Parasite of the Alien Seagrass Halophila stipulacea: New Insights into Its Ecology, Phylogeny, and Distribution in the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published on 29 October 2019

EukRef-excavates: seven curated SSU ribosomal RNA gene databases

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Evolution of Archamoebae: morphological and molecular evidence for pelobionts including Rhizomastix, Entamoeba, Iodamoeba, and Endolimax

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Evolution of the microtubular cytoskeleton (flagellar apparatus) in parasitic protists

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Extensive diversity of intestinal trichomonads of non-human primates.

scientific article published on 26 September 2011

Fe-S Cluster Assembly in Oxymonads and Related Protists

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

First multigene analysis of Archamoebae (Amoebozoa: Conosa) robustly reveals its phylogeny and shows that Entamoebidae represents a deep lineage of the group

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

First report on trichomonads from true bugs

scientific article published in June 2014

First report on trichomonads from true bugs

scholarly article published by Ivan Čepička in 2014

Genomics of New Ciliate Lineages Provides Insight into the Evolution of Obligate Anaerobiosis

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

Gregarine single-cell transcriptomics reveals differential mitochondrial remodeling and adaptation in apicomplexans

scientific article published on 16 April 2021

Herpetomonas trimorpha sp. nov. (Trypanosomatidae, Kinetoplastida), a parasite of the biting midge Culicoides truncorum (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera).

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Heterotrophic euglenid Rhabdomonas costata resembles its phototrophic relatives in many aspects of molecular and cell biology

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba <i>Pelomyxa schiedti</i>

scientific article published on 26 August 2023

InPouch™ TF-Feline medium is not specific for Tritrichomonas foetus.

scientific article published on 16 April 2013

Marine Isolates of Trimastix marina Form a Plesiomorphic Deep-branching Lineage within Preaxostyla, Separate from Other Known Trimastigids (Paratrimastix n. gen.).

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Marinomyxa Gen. Nov. Accommodates Gall-Forming Parasites of the Tropical to Subtropical Seagrass Genus Halophila and Constitutes a Novel Deep-Branching Lineage Within Phytomyxea (Rhizaria: Endomyxa)

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Microbial effects on the release and attenuation of arsenic in the shallow subsurface of a natural geochemical anomaly.

scientific article published in June 2013

Microbiology of diverse acidic and non-acidic microhabitats within a sulfidic ore mine.

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Molecular and Morphological Diversity of the Oxymonad Genera Monocercomonoides and Blattamonas gen. nov

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Molecular and morphological diversity of the genus Hypotrichomonas (Parabasalia: Hypotrichomonadida), with descriptions of six new species.

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Molecular identification of Entamoeba species in savanna woodland chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).

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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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Morphologic and molecular characterization of Brachonella pulchra (Kahl, 1927) comb. nov. (Armophorea, Ciliophora) with comments on cyst structure and formation

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Morphologic and molecular characterization of seven species of the remarkably diverse and widely distributed metopid genus Urostomides Jankowski, 1964 (Armophorea, Ciliophora).

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Morphological Identities of Two Different Marine Stramenopile Environmental Sequence Clades: Bicosoeca kenaiensis (Hilliard, 1971) and Cantina marsupialis (Larsen and Patterson, 1990) gen. nov., comb. nov.

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Morphological and Molecular Diversity of the Neglected Genus Rhizomastix Alexeieff, 1911 (Amoebozoa: Archamoebae) with Description of Five New Species.

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Morphological and molecular diversity of the monocercomonadid genera Monocercomonas, Hexamastix, and Honigbergiella gen. nov.

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Morphological and molecular evidence support a close relationship between the free-living archamoebae Mastigella and Pelomyxa.

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Morphology and phylogenetic position of three anaerobic ciliates from the classes Odontostomatea and Muranotrichea (Ciliophora)

scientific article published on 20 February 2023

Morphology and phylogeny of two anaerobic freshwater ciliates: Brachonella comma sp. nov. and the widely distributed but little‐known caenomorphid, Ludio parvulus Penard, 1922

scientific article published on 20 February 2022

Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular characterization of <i>Castula specialis</i> sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Armophorea, Metopida)

scientific article published on 29 November 2023

Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

New evolutionary lineages, unexpected diversity, and host specificity in the parabasalid genus Tetratrichomonas

scientific article published on 10 February 2006

Non-monophyly of Retortamonadida and high genetic diversity of the genus Chilomastix suggested by analysis of SSU rDNA.

scientific article published on 3 May 2008

Nuclear genetic codes with a different meaning of the UAG and the UAA codon

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Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes.

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Parabasalia

Parabasalia

Phylogenetic Position of Three Well-known Ciliates from the Controversial Order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980 (Scuticociliatia, Oligohymenophorea) and Urozona buetschlii (Schewiakoff, 1889) with Improved Morphological Descriptions

scholarly article published in 2021

Phylogenetic position of Karotomorpha and paraphyly of Proteromonadidae

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Phylogenetic position of Protoopalina intestinalis based on SSU rRNA gene sequence

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Phylogeny and Morphological Variability of Trypanosomes from African Pelomedusid Turtles with Redescription of Trypanosoma mocambicum Pienaar, 1962.

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

scientific article published on 19 June 2024

Radiosensitivity of glycolytic enzymes in the nucleus

scientific article published on 01 September 1963

Redescription and molecular phylogeny of the type species for two main metopid genera, Metopus es (Müller, 1776) Lauterborn, 1916 and Brachonella contorta (Levander, 1894) Jankowski, 1964 (Metopida, Ciliophora), based on broad geographic sampling.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Rediscovery of Remarkably Rare Anaerobic Tentaculiferous Ciliate Genera Legendrea and Dactylochlamys (Ciliophora: Litostomatea)

scientific article published in 2023

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

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Retortamonadida (with Notes on Carpediemonas-Like Organisms and Caviomonadidae)

Retortamonadida (with Notes on Carpediemonas-Like Organisms and Caviomonadidae)

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Rhizomastix biflagellata sp. nov., a new amoeboflagellate of uncertain phylogenetic position isolated from frogs

scientific article published on October 12, 2010

Sergeia podlipaevi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Trypanosomatidae, Kinetoplastida), a parasite of biting midges (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera).

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SlowFaster, a user-friendly program for slow-fast analysis and its application on phylogeny of Blastocystis

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Substantial Variability of Multiple Microbial Communities Collected at Similar Acidic Mine Water Outlets

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Survey on diversity of marine/saline anaerobic Heterolobosea (Excavata: Discoba) with description of seven new species

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Sympatric western lowland gorillas, central chimpanzees and humans are infected with different trichomonads

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

The Little-known Freshwater Metopid Ciliate, Idiometopus turbo (Dragesco and Dragesco-Kernéis, 1986) nov. gen., nov. comb., Originally Discovered in Africa, Found on the Micronesian Island of Guam

scientific article published on 26 May 2018

The phylogenetic position of enteromonads: a challenge for the present models of diplomonad evolution

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Trichomonosis in Eurasian sparrowhawks in the Czech Republic

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Tropidoatractidae fam. nov., a Deep Branching Lineage of Metopida (Armophorea, Ciliophora) Found in Diverse Habitats and Possessing Prokaryotic Symbionts

scientific article published on 21 April 2018

Trypanosomes of the Trypanosoma theileri Group: Phylogeny and New Potential Vectors

scientific article published in 2022

Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogeny of Iotanema spirale gen. nov. et sp. nov., a New Lineage of Endobiotic Fornicata with Strikingly Simplified Ultrastructure.

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Was the Mitochondrion Necessary to Start Eukaryogenesis?

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Život není fér!, aneb, Jak se organismy vyrovnávají s abiotickým zlem prostředí: biologická olympiáda 2022-2023, 57. ročník, přípravný text pro kategorie A, B

book edition published in 2022