Anaerobiosis has independently evolved in multiple lineages of ciliates, allowing them to
colonize a variety of anoxic and oxygen‐depleted habitats. Anaerobic ciliates commonly …

Anthropogenic oil in the ocean is of great concern due to its potential immediate and long‐
term impacts on the ecosystem, economy, and society, leading to intense societal efforts to …

Cold seeps are widespread chemosynthetic ecosystems in the deep-sea environment, and
cold seep microbial communities of the South China Sea are poorly constrained. Here we …

Oxygen plays a crucial role in energetic metabolism of most eukaryotes. Yet adaptations to
low-oxygen concentrations leading to anaerobiosis have independently arisen in many …

The active cold seep at Formosa Ridge (Site F) sustains the most flourishing ecosystem on
the continental slope of the northern South China Sea. However, the physicochemical …

Understanding how biodiversity changes in time and space is vital to assess the effects of
environmental change on benthic ecosystems. Due to the limitations of morphological …

Oxygen-depleted water columns (ODWCs) host a diverse community of eukaryotic protists
that change dramatically in composition over the oxic-anoxic gradient. In the permanently …

Anaerobic protists in general, and ciliates in particular, are important components of anoxic
or hypoxic environments, however, their diversity remains underestimated. Sonderia is a …

The relative importance of different ecological processes that shape community structure is a
central but poorly understood topic in protist ecology. This study used an 18S rRNA gene …

Introduction of non-indigenous microbial organisms is forecast to pose a significant threat to
the northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) marine environments, but reliable data are still …