List of works - Brian S. Leander

A hierarchical view of convergent evolution in microbial eukaryotes

scientific article

A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

A new species of Polygordius (Polychaeta: Polygordiidae): from the inner continental shelf and in bays and harbours of the north-eastern United States

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 86 no. 5, August 2006

A resurgence in field research is essential to better understand the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbial eukaryotes.

scientific article

A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species

scientific article

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

scientific article

An SSU rDNA barcoding approach to the diversity of marine interstitial cercozoans, including descriptions of four novel genera and nine novel species

scientific article

Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: A new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex

scholarly article

COI barcoding of Nebelid testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): extensive cryptic diversity and redefinition of the Hyalospheniidae Schultze

scientific article

Cascades of convergent evolution: the corresponding evolutionary histories of euglenozoans and dinoflagellates

scholarly article

Cellular identity of a novel small subunit rDNA sequence clade of apicomplexans: description of the marine parasite Rhytidocystis polygordiae n. sp. (host: Polygordius sp., Polychaeta).

scientific article

Character evolution in heterotrophic euglenids

scholarly article published in 2001

Characterisation of a non-canonical genetic code in the oxymonad Streblomastix strix

scientific article published in March 2003

Comparative Ultrastructure of Fornicate Excavates, Including a Novel Free-living Relative of Diplomonads: Aduncisulcus paluster gen. et sp. nov.

scientific article

Comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny of Apicoporus n. Gen.: a new genus of marine benthic dinoflagellates formerly classified within Amphidinium

scientific article

Comparative surface morphology of marine coelomic gregarines (Apicomplexa, Urosporidae): Pterospora floridiensis and Pterospora schizosoma

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Comparative ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Selenidium melongena n. sp. and S. terebellae Ray 1930 demonstrate niche partitioning in marine gregarine parasites (apicomplexa).

scientific article

Comparing potential COI and SSU rDNA barcodes for assessing the diversity and phylogenetic relationships of cyphoderiid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Euglyphida).

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

Comprehensive ultrastructure of Kipferlia bialata provides evidence for character evolution within the Fornicata (Excavata).

scientific article

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

scientific article

Description and phylogenetic position of the first sand-dwelling entoproct from the western coast of North America:Loxosomella vancouverensissp. nov.

scientific article published in 2012

Description of Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa, Lecudinidae)--an intestinal gregarine of Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta, Onuphidae).

scientific article

Did trypanosomatid parasites have photosynthetic ancestors?

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Different modes of convergent evolution reflect phylogenetic distances: a reply to Arendt and Reznick

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Dinoflagellate Phylogeny as Inferred from Heat Shock Protein 90 and Ribosomal Gene Sequences ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 8 October 2010)

Dinoflagellate nucleus contains an extensive endomembrane network, the nuclear net

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Dinoflagellate, Euglenid, or Cercomonad? The ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of Protaspis grandis n. sp.

scientific article published on September 2006

Discovery of a Diverse Clade of Gregarine Apicomplexans (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) from Pacific Eunicid and Onuphid Polychaetes, Including Descriptions of Paralecudina n. gen., Trichotokara japonica n. sp., and T. eunicae n. sp ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2013

Diversity and Evolutionary History of the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa)

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists

scientific article published in August 2007

EARLY EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF DINOFLAGELLATES AND APICOMPLEXANS (ALVEOLATA) AS INFERRED FROM HSP90 AND ACTIN PHYLOGENIES1

EVOLUTION OF PHACUS (EUGLENOPHYCEAE) AS INFERRED FROM PELLICLE MORPHOLOGY AND SSU rDNA

Ebriid phylogeny and the expansion of the Cercozoa

scientific article (publication date: August 2006)

Echinoderes hakaiensis sp. nov.: a new mud dragon (Kinorhyncha, Echinoderidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean with the redescription of Echinoderes pennaki Higgins, 1960 ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 May 2017

Euglenida

article from 2017

Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis

scientific article published on 16 March 2023

Evolution of distorted pellicle patterns in rigid photosynthetic euglenids (phacus dujardin).

scientific article

Evolution of microtubule organizing centers across the tree of eukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on March 22, 2013

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

scientific article

Evolutionary relationships among marine cercozoans as inferred from combined SSU and LSU rDNA sequences and polyubiquitin insertions

scientific article

Eye-like ocelloids are built from different endosymbiotically acquired components

scientific article

Fusiforma themisticola n. gen., n. sp., a new genus and species of apostome ciliate infecting the hyperiid amphipod Themisto libellula in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean), and establishment of the Pseudocolliniidae (Ciliophora, Apostomatia) ⬇️

scientific article

Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of ‘dalyelliid’ and temnocephalid microturbellarians

scientific article

Holarctic phylogeography of the testate amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) reveals extensive genetic diversity explained more by environment than dispersal limitation

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

How exaptations facilitated photosensory evolution: Seeing the light by accident

scientific article published on June 2017

Identification of a divergent environmental DNA sequence clade using the phylogeny of gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa) from crustacean hosts

scientific article

Identity of environmental DNA sequences using descriptions of four novel marine gregarine parasites, Polyplicarium n. gen. (Apicomplexa), from capitellid polychaetes ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Identity of epibiotic bacteria on symbiontid euglenozoans in O2-depleted marine sediments: evidence for symbiont and host co-evolution

scientific article

LESSARDIA ELONGATA GEN. ET SP. NOV. (DINOFLAGELLATA, PERIDINIALES, PODOLAMPACEAE) AND THE TAXONOMIC POSITION OF THE GENUS ROSCOFFIA1

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF A NEW MARINE SAND-DWELLING PROROCENTRUM SPECIES, P. TSAWWASSENENSE (DINOPHYCEAE, PROROCENTRALES), FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA(1).

scientific article

MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF ANKISTRODINIUM GEN. NOV. (DINOPHYCEAE), A NEW GENUS OF MARINE SAND-DWELLING DINOFLAGELLATES FORMERLY CLASSIFIED WITHIN AMPHIDINIUM(1).

scientific article

Macroevolution of complex cytoskeletal systems in euglenids

scientific article

Major transitions in dinoflagellate evolution unveiled by phylotranscriptomics.

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Marine gregarines: evolutionary prelude to the apicomplexan radiation?

scientific article

Masters of miniaturization: convergent evolution among interstitial eukaryotes

scientific article

Metagenomic Analysis Suggests Modern Freshwater Microbialites Harbor a Distinct Core Microbial Community

scientific article

Microbial arms race: Ballistic "nematocysts" in dinoflagellates represent a new extreme in organelle complexity.

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Microbial communities in sandy beaches from the three domains of life differ by microhabitat and intertidal location

scientific article published in 2022

Microbiomes of microscopic marine invertebrates do not reveal signatures of phylosymbiosis

scientific article published in 2022

Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi

scientific article published in 2022

Molecular Phylogenetic Positions of Two New Marine Gregarines (Apicomplexa) - Paralecudina anankea n. sp. and Lecudina caspera n. sp. - from the Intestine of Lumbrineris inflata (Polychaeta) Show Patterns of Co-evolution

scientific article

Molecular Phylogeny and Ultrastructure of Caliculium glossobalani n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa) from a Pacific Glossobalanus minutus (Hemichordata) Confounds the Relationships Between Marine and Terrestrial Gregarines

scientific article

Molecular Phylogeny of Marine Gregarine Parasites (Apicomplexa) from Tube‐forming Polychaetes (Sabellariidae, Cirratulidae, and Serpulidae), Including Descriptions of Two New Species of Selenidium ⬇️

scientific article published on July 24, 2013

Molecular Phylogeny of Pacific Archigregarines (Apicomplexa), Including Descriptions of Veloxidium leptosynaptae n. gen., n. sp., from the Sea Cucumber Leptosynapta clarki (Echinodermata), and Two New Species of Selenidium ⬇️

scientific article published on April 19, 2012

Molecular examination of kalyptorhynch diversity (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), including descriptions of five meiofaunal species from the north-eastern Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Molecular phylogenetic position of a rare and enigmatic meiofaunal flatworm from the Pacific Ocean: <i>Retronectes hyacinthe</i> sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Catenulida)

scientific article published in 2023

Molecular phylogeny and description of the novel katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and establishment of the Hacrobia taxon nov

scientific article published in 2009

Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of Colpodella edax (Alveolata): insights into the phagotrophic ancestry of apicomplexans

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of marine archigregarines (Apicomplexa), Selenidium spp., Filipodium phascolosomae n. sp., and Platyproteum n. g. and comb. from North-Eastern Pacific peanut worms (Sipuncula).

scientific article published in September 2009

Molecular phylogeny of Parvilucifera prorocentri (Alveolata, Myzozoa): Insights into perkinsid character evolution

scientific article

Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggests transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Molecular phylogeny of neodalyellid flatworms (Rhabdocoela), including three new species from British Columbia

article

Molecular phylogeny of ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates (Warnowiaceae) as inferred from SSU and LSU rDNA sequences

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2009)

Molecular phylogeny of trigonostomine turbellarians (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Trigonostomidae), including four new species from the Northeast Pacific Ocean

scholarly article by Niels W L Van Steenkiste & Brian S Leander published 16 August 2017 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Molecular systematics of marine gregarine apicomplexans from Pacific tunicates, with descriptions of five novel species of Lankesteria

scientific article

Molecular systematics of marine gregarines (Apicomplexa) from North-eastern Pacific polychaetes and nemerteans, with descriptions of three novel species: Lecudina phyllochaetopteri sp. nov., Difficilina tubulani sp. nov. and Difficilina paranemertis

scientific article

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.

scientific article

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of a New Marine, Sand-dwelling Dinoflagellate Genus, Pachena (Dinophyceae), with Descriptions of Three New Species

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Haplozoon praxillellae n. sp. (Dinoflagellata): a novel intestinal parasite of the maldanid polychaete Praxillella pacifica Berkeley

scientific article

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a marine interstitial tetraflagellate with putative endosymbionts: Auranticordis quadriverberis n. gen. et sp. (Cercozoa)

scientific article

Morphology and phylogenetic position of two novel marine gregarines (Apicomplexa, Eugregarinorida) from the intestines of North-eastern Pacific ascidians

scientific article published in November 2008

Morphology and phylogeny of the pseudocolonial dinoflagellates Polykrikos lebourae and Polykrikos herdmanae n. sp

scientific article published on 22 January 2007

Morphology and taxonomy of a new marine sand-dwelling Amphidiniopsis species (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales), A. aculeata sp. nov., from Cap Feret, France ⬇️

Morphostasis in a novel eukaryote illuminates the evolutionary transition from phagotrophy to phototrophy: description of Rapaza viridis n. gen. et sp. (Euglenozoa, Euglenida) ⬇️

scientific article published on March 8, 2012

Morphostasis in alveolate evolution

scientific article published in 2003

Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs

scholarly article published in 2021

Multiple Independent Origins of Apicomplexan-Like Parasites

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

NOVEL PELLICLE SURFACE PATTERNS ON EUGLENA OBTUSA (EUGLENOPHYTA) FROM THE MARINE BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR PELLICLE DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION(1).

scientific article published on February 2008

Neuroanatomy of mud dragons: a comprehensive view of the nervous system in Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) by confocal laser scanning microscopy

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Old lineages in a new ecosystem: diversification of arcellinid amoebae (Amoebozoa) and peatland mosses

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Parasitic infection of the hyperiid amphipod Themisto libellula in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean), with a description of Ganymedes themistos sp. n. (Apicomplexa, Eugregarinorida) ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Pellicle ultrastructure demonstrates that <i>Moyeria</i> is a fossil euglenid

scientific article published in 2019

Phylogenetic position and description of Rhytidocystis cyamus sp. n. (Apicomplexa, Rhytidocystidae): a novel intestinal parasite of the north-eastern Pacific ‘stink worm’ (Polychaeta, Opheliidae, Travisia pupa) ⬇️

Phylogenomics shows unique traits in Noctilucales are derived rather than ancestral

scientific article published in 2022

Phylogeny of gregarines (Apicomplexa) as inferred from small-subunit rDNA and beta-tubulin

scientific article (publication date: 2003)

Phylogeny of marine Gregarines (Apicomplexa)--Pterospora, Lithocystis and Lankesteria--and the origin(s) of coelomic parasitism

scientific article published on 13 December 2005

Phylogeny of phagotrophic euglenids (Euglenozoa) as inferred from hsp90 gene sequences

scientific article published in January 2007

Predatory protists

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Re-classification of Pheopolykrikos hartmannii as Polykrikos (Dinophyceae) based partly on the ultrastructure of complex extrusomes

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Reconciling the bizarre inheritance of microtubules in complex (euglenid) microeukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on November 4, 2011

Reconstruction of the feeding apparatus in Postgaardi mariagerensis provides evidence for character evolution within the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa).

scientific article

Redescription of Echinoderes ohtsukai Yamasaki and Kajihara, 2012 and E. kozloffi Higgins, 1977 from the northeastern Pacific coast, including the first report of a potential invasive species of kinorhynch

article

Reply to Speijer: Does complexity necessarily arise from selective advantage?

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Single cell transcriptomics of ABEDINIUM reveals a new early-branching dinoflagellate lineage

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Single-cell transcriptomics using spliced leader PCR: Evidence for multiple losses of photosynthesis in polykrikoid dinoflagellates

scientific article

Species Boundaries in Gregarine Apicomplexan Parasites: A Case Study—Comparison of Morphometric and Molecular Variability in Lecudina cf. tuzetae (Eugregarinorida, Lecudinidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2011

Species diversity in the marine microturbellarian Astrotorhynchus bifidus sensu lato (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from the Northeast Pacific Ocean

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Species diversity of eukalyptorhynch flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from the coastal margin of British Columbia: Polycystididae, Koinocystididae and Gnathorhynchidae

scientific article published in 2018

Symbiotic innovation in the oxymonad Streblomastix strix

scientific article

Taxonomy and phylogeny of Koinocystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia), with the description of three new genera and twelve new species

scientific article

Taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, and ecology of Sabulodinium undulatum (Dinophyceae), including an emended description of the species

scientific article published in June 2007

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

scientific article

The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)

The evolution of paralogous enzymes MAT and MATX within the Euglenida and beyond

scientific article

The first record of Rhabdocoela, Alcha sinensis, Wang & Hu, 2019 (Platyhelminthes: Polycystididae) from Korea ⬇️

The molecular phylogenetic position of Mariplanella piscadera sp. nov. reveals a new major group of rhabdocoel flatworms: Mariplanellida status novus (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2022

The phylogeny of colpodellids (Alveolata) using small subunit rRNA gene sequences suggests they are the free-living sister group to apicomplexans

scientific article

Trends in the evolution of the euglenid pellicle

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Ultrastructure and 18S rDNA phylogeny of Apoikia lindahlii comb. nov. (Chrysophyceae) and its epibiontic protists, Filos agilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida) and Nanos amicus gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida).

scientific article

Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogenetic Position of Heteronema scaphurum: A Eukaryovorous Euglenid with a Cytoproct ⬇️

scientific article published on January 14, 2013

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of a new marine sand-dwelling dinoflagellate from British Columbia, Canada: Pseudadenoides polypyrenoides sp. nov. (Dinophyceae)

scholarly article by Mona Hoppenrath et al published 3 March 2017 in European Journal of Phycology

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel euglenozoan with extrusive episymbiotic bacteria: Bihospites bacati n. gen. et sp. (Symbiontida).

scientific article

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel phagotrophic stramenopile from low oxygen environments: Rictus lutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida, incertae sedis).

scientific article

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Calkinsia aureus: cellular identity of a novel clade of deep-sea euglenozoans with epibiotic bacteria

scientific article

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Stephanopogon minuta: an enigmatic microeukaryote from marine interstitial environments

scientific article

Ultrastructure of a novel tube-forming, intracellular parasite of dinoflagellates: Parvilucifera prorocentri sp. nov. (Alveolata, Myzozoa).

scientific article

Ultrastructure, life cycle and molecular phylogenetic position of a novel marine sand-dwelling cercozoan: Clautriavia biflagellata n. sp.

scientific article

Validation of a universal set of primers to study animal-associated microeukaryotic communities

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

List of works by Brian S. Leander

A hierarchical view of convergent evolution in microbial eukaryotes

A new case of kleptoplasty in animals: Marine flatworms steal functional plastids from diatoms

A new species of Polygordius (Polychaeta: Polygordiidae): from the inner continental shelf and in bays and harbours of the north-eastern United States

A resurgence in field research is essential to better understand the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbial eukaryotes.

A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species

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

An SSU rDNA barcoding approach to the diversity of marine interstitial cercozoans, including descriptions of four novel genera and nine novel species

Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: A new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex

COI barcoding of Nebelid testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): extensive cryptic diversity and redefinition of the Hyalospheniidae Schultze

Cascades of convergent evolution: the corresponding evolutionary histories of euglenozoans and dinoflagellates

Cellular identity of a novel small subunit rDNA sequence clade of apicomplexans: description of the marine parasite Rhytidocystis polygordiae n. sp. (host: Polygordius sp., Polychaeta).

Character evolution in heterotrophic euglenids

Characterisation of a non-canonical genetic code in the oxymonad Streblomastix strix

Comparative Ultrastructure of Fornicate Excavates, Including a Novel Free-living Relative of Diplomonads: Aduncisulcus paluster gen. et sp. nov.

Comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny of Apicoporus n. Gen.: a new genus of marine benthic dinoflagellates formerly classified within Amphidinium

Comparative surface morphology of marine coelomic gregarines (Apicomplexa, Urosporidae): Pterospora floridiensis and Pterospora schizosoma

Comparative ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Selenidium melongena n. sp. and S. terebellae Ray 1930 demonstrate niche partitioning in marine gregarine parasites (apicomplexa).

Comparing potential COI and SSU rDNA barcodes for assessing the diversity and phylogenetic relationships of cyphoderiid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Euglyphida).

Comprehensive ultrastructure of Kipferlia bialata provides evidence for character evolution within the Fornicata (Excavata).

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

Description and phylogenetic position of the first sand-dwelling entoproct from the western coast of North America:Loxosomella vancouverensissp. nov.

Description of Trichotokara nothriae n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa, Lecudinidae)--an intestinal gregarine of Nothria conchylega (Polychaeta, Onuphidae).

Did trypanosomatid parasites have photosynthetic ancestors?

Different modes of convergent evolution reflect phylogenetic distances: a reply to Arendt and Reznick

Dinoflagellate Phylogeny as Inferred from Heat Shock Protein 90 and Ribosomal Gene Sequences ⬇️

Dinoflagellate nucleus contains an extensive endomembrane network, the nuclear net

Dinoflagellate, Euglenid, or Cercomonad? The ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetic position of Protaspis grandis n. sp.

Discovery of a Diverse Clade of Gregarine Apicomplexans (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida) from Pacific Eunicid and Onuphid Polychaetes, Including Descriptions of Paralecudina n. gen., Trichotokara japonica n. sp., and T. eunicae n. sp ⬇️

Diversity and Evolutionary History of the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa)

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

Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists

EARLY EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF DINOFLAGELLATES AND APICOMPLEXANS (ALVEOLATA) AS INFERRED FROM HSP90 AND ACTIN PHYLOGENIES1

EVOLUTION OF PHACUS (EUGLENOPHYCEAE) AS INFERRED FROM PELLICLE MORPHOLOGY AND SSU rDNA

Ebriid phylogeny and the expansion of the Cercozoa

Echinoderes hakaiensis sp. nov.: a new mud dragon (Kinorhyncha, Echinoderidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean with the redescription of Echinoderes pennaki Higgins, 1960 ⬇️

Euglenida

Euglenozoan kleptoplasty illuminates the early evolution of photoendosymbiosis

Evolution of distorted pellicle patterns in rigid photosynthetic euglenids (phacus dujardin).

Evolution of microtubule organizing centers across the tree of eukaryotes ⬇️

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

Evolutionary relationships among marine cercozoans as inferred from combined SSU and LSU rDNA sequences and polyubiquitin insertions

Eye-like ocelloids are built from different endosymbiotically acquired components

Fusiforma themisticola n. gen., n. sp., a new genus and species of apostome ciliate infecting the hyperiid amphipod Themisto libellula in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean), and establishment of the Pseudocolliniidae (Ciliophora, Apostomatia) ⬇️

Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of ‘dalyelliid’ and temnocephalid microturbellarians

Holarctic phylogeography of the testate amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) reveals extensive genetic diversity explained more by environment than dispersal limitation

How exaptations facilitated photosensory evolution: Seeing the light by accident

Identification of a divergent environmental DNA sequence clade using the phylogeny of gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa) from crustacean hosts

Identity of environmental DNA sequences using descriptions of four novel marine gregarine parasites, Polyplicarium n. gen. (Apicomplexa), from capitellid polychaetes ⬇️

Identity of epibiotic bacteria on symbiontid euglenozoans in O2-depleted marine sediments: evidence for symbiont and host co-evolution

LESSARDIA ELONGATA GEN. ET SP. NOV. (DINOFLAGELLATA, PERIDINIALES, PODOLAMPACEAE) AND THE TAXONOMIC POSITION OF THE GENUS ROSCOFFIA1

MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF A NEW MARINE SAND-DWELLING PROROCENTRUM SPECIES, P. TSAWWASSENENSE (DINOPHYCEAE, PROROCENTRALES), FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA(1).

MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF ANKISTRODINIUM GEN. NOV. (DINOPHYCEAE), A NEW GENUS OF MARINE SAND-DWELLING DINOFLAGELLATES FORMERLY CLASSIFIED WITHIN AMPHIDINIUM(1).

Macroevolution of complex cytoskeletal systems in euglenids

Major transitions in dinoflagellate evolution unveiled by phylotranscriptomics.

Marine gregarines: evolutionary prelude to the apicomplexan radiation?

Masters of miniaturization: convergent evolution among interstitial eukaryotes

Metagenomic Analysis Suggests Modern Freshwater Microbialites Harbor a Distinct Core Microbial Community

Microbial arms race: Ballistic "nematocysts" in dinoflagellates represent a new extreme in organelle complexity.

Microbial communities in sandy beaches from the three domains of life differ by microhabitat and intertidal location

Microbiomes of microscopic marine invertebrates do not reveal signatures of phylosymbiosis

Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi

Molecular Phylogenetic Positions of Two New Marine Gregarines (Apicomplexa) - Paralecudina anankea n. sp. and Lecudina caspera n. sp. - from the Intestine of Lumbrineris inflata (Polychaeta) Show Patterns of Co-evolution

Molecular Phylogeny and Ultrastructure of Caliculium glossobalani n. gen. et sp. (Apicomplexa) from a Pacific Glossobalanus minutus (Hemichordata) Confounds the Relationships Between Marine and Terrestrial Gregarines

Molecular Phylogeny of Marine Gregarine Parasites (Apicomplexa) from Tube‐forming Polychaetes (Sabellariidae, Cirratulidae, and Serpulidae), Including Descriptions of Two New Species of Selenidium ⬇️

Molecular Phylogeny of Pacific Archigregarines (Apicomplexa), Including Descriptions of Veloxidium leptosynaptae n. gen., n. sp., from the Sea Cucumber Leptosynapta clarki (Echinodermata), and Two New Species of Selenidium ⬇️

Molecular examination of kalyptorhynch diversity (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela), including descriptions of five meiofaunal species from the north-eastern Pacific Ocean

Molecular phylogenetic position of a rare and enigmatic meiofaunal flatworm from the Pacific Ocean: <i>Retronectes hyacinthe</i> sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Catenulida)

Molecular phylogeny and description of the novel katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and establishment of the Hacrobia taxon nov

Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of Colpodella edax (Alveolata): insights into the phagotrophic ancestry of apicomplexans

Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of marine archigregarines (Apicomplexa), Selenidium spp., Filipodium phascolosomae n. sp., and Platyproteum n. g. and comb. from North-Eastern Pacific peanut worms (Sipuncula).

Molecular phylogeny of Parvilucifera prorocentri (Alveolata, Myzozoa): Insights into perkinsid character evolution

Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggests transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent

Molecular phylogeny of neodalyellid flatworms (Rhabdocoela), including three new species from British Columbia

Molecular phylogeny of ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates (Warnowiaceae) as inferred from SSU and LSU rDNA sequences

Molecular phylogeny of trigonostomine turbellarians (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Trigonostomidae), including four new species from the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Molecular systematics of marine gregarine apicomplexans from Pacific tunicates, with descriptions of five novel species of Lankesteria

Molecular systematics of marine gregarines (Apicomplexa) from North-eastern Pacific polychaetes and nemerteans, with descriptions of three novel species: Lecudina phyllochaetopteri sp. nov., Difficilina tubulani sp. nov. and Difficilina paranemertis

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.

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of a New Marine, Sand-dwelling Dinoflagellate Genus, Pachena (Dinophyceae), with Descriptions of Three New Species