List of works by Micah Dunthorn

"Candidatus Haloectosymbiotes riaformosensis" (Halobacteriaceae), an archaeal ectosymbiont of the hypersaline ciliate Platynematum salinarum

scientific article

Above‐ and below‐ground biodiversity responses to the prolonged flood pulse in central‐western Amazonia, Brazil

scientific article published on 03 December 2021

Advancing biodiversity assessments with environmental DNA: Long-read technologies help reveal the drivers of Amazonian fungal diversity

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Assessing Biotic and Abiotic Interactions of Microorganisms in Amazonia through Co-Occurrence Networks and DNA Metabarcoding

scientific article published on 19 February 2021

Benthic protists: the under-charted majority

scientific article

Beyond the "Code": A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora).

scientific article

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

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Ciliate SSU-rDNA reference alignments and trees for phylogenetic placements of metabarcoding data

scientific article published in 2021

Ciliates and the rare biosphere: a review

scientific article

Ciliates — Protists with complex morphologies and ambiguous early fossil record

scholarly article by Micah Dunthorn published in September 2015

Clarifying the Relationships between Microsporidia and Cryptomycota.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Colpodean ciliate phylogeny and reference alignments for phylogenetic placements

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Comparing High-throughput Platforms for Sequencing the V4 Region of SSU-rDNA in Environmental Microbial Eukaryotic Diversity Surveys

scientific article

Comparing the hyper-variable V4 and V9 regions of the small subunit rDNA for assessment of ciliate environmental diversity

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Comparison of three clustering approaches for detecting novel environmental microbial diversity

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Congruence and indifference between two molecular markers for understanding oral evolution in the Marynidae sensu lato (Ciliophora, Colpodea)

scientific article

Consistent patterns of high alpha and low beta diversity in tropical parasitic and free-living protists

scientific article published on 17 June 2018

Cryptic sex in Symbiodinium (Alveolata, Dinoflagellata) is supported by an inventory of meiotic genes.

scientific article

Deep sequencing uncovers protistan plankton diversity in the Portuguese Ria Formosa solar saltern ponds

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Delimiting operational taxonomic units for assessing ciliate environmental diversity using small-subunit rRNA gene sequences

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Diatom diversity through HTS-metabarcoding in coastal European seas

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Evaluating support for the current classification of eukaryotic diversity ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2006

Expanding character sampling for ciliate phylogenetic inference using mitochondrial SSU-rDNA as a molecular marker

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Expanding character sampling for the molecular phylogeny of euplotid ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) using three markers, with a focus on the family Uronychiidae

scientific article

Fossil Tintinnids

Heterogeneous rates of molecular evolution among cryptic species of the ciliate morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata.

scientific article published on December 2011

Identification of the pathogenic ciliate Pseudocohnilembus persalinus (Oligohymenophorea: Scuticociliatia) by fluorescence in situ hybridization

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Increasing taxon sampling using both unidentified environmental sequences and identified cultures improves phylogenetic inference in the Prorodontida (Ciliophora, Prostomatea).

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

Intraclass evolution and classification of the Colpodea (Ciliophora).

scientific article published on 18 July 2011

Many neglected tropical diseases may have originated in the Paleolithic or before: new insights from genetics

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 28 June 2015

Meiosis gene inventory of four ciliates reveals the prevalence of a synaptonemal complex-independent crossover pathway

scientific article

Meiotic Genes in Colpodean Ciliates Support Secretive Sexuality

scientific article published on June 2017

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

scientific article published in November 2015

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of class Colpodea (phylum Ciliophora) using broad taxon sampling

scientific article published on 28 August 2007

New SSU-rDNA sequences for eleven colpodeans (Ciliophora, Colpodea) and description of Apocyrtolophosis nov. gen.

scientific article

Ocean plankton. Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

scientific article published on May 2015

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

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Patterns of rare and abundant marine microbial eukaryotes

scientific article

Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High-Throughput Metabarcoding

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Phylogenetic placement of the Cyrtolophosididae Stokes, 1888 (Ciliophora; Colpodea) and neotypification of Aristerostoma marinum Kahl, 1931.

scientific article

Placing environmental next-generation sequencing amplicons from microbial eukaryotes into a phylogenetic context

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Protist Biodiversity and Biogeography in Lakes From Four Brazilian River-Floodplain Systems

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Putatively asexual chrysophytes have meiotic genes: evidence from transcriptomic data

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Report of the 2014 joint workshop of the international research coordination network for biodiversity of ciliates and the british society for protist biology

scientific article published in February 2015

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Richness of morphological hypotheses in ciliate systematics allows for detailed assessment of homology and comparisons with gene trees ⬇️

scientific article published in 2008

Secretive ciliates and putative asexuality in microbial eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Soil Protists in Three Neotropical Rainforests are Hyperdiverse and Dominated by Parasites

scholarly article published 29 April 2016

Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

scholarly article by Stefan Geisen et al published August 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering

scientific article

Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Testing ecological theories with sequence similarity networks: marine ciliates exhibit similar geographic dispersal patterns as multicellular organisms

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

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

scientific article

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

taxonomic paper

The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

The affiliation of Hexasterias problematica and Halodinium verrucatum sp. nov. to ciliate cysts based on molecular phylogeny and cyst wall composition

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

The chaos prevails: molecular phylogeny of the Haptoria (Ciliophora, Litostomatea).

scientific article published in December 2013

UniEuk: Time to Speak a Common Language in Protistology!

scientific article

Worldwide Occurrence and Activity of the Reef-Building Coral Symbiont Symbiodinium in the Open Ocean

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Yeasts dominate soil fungal communities in three lowland Neotropical rainforests

scientific article

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