In 1981 I established kingdom Chromista, distinguished from Plantae because of its more complex chloroplast-associated membrane topology and rigid tubular multipartite ciliary …
Stramenopiles represent a significant proportion of aquatic and terrestrial biota. Most biologists can name a few, but these are limited to the phototrophic (eg diatoms and kelp) or …
ABSTRACT Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we argue that …
T Cavalier-Smith, EE Chao, R Lewis - Protoplasma, 2018 - Springer
Infrakingdom Rhizaria is one of four major subgroups with distinct cell body plans that comprise eukaryotic kingdom Chromista. Unlike other chromists, Rhizaria are mostly …
We describe the performance of a new metabarcoding approach to investigate the environmental diversity of a prominent group of widespread unicellular organisms, the …
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …
AM Hernandez, JF Ryan - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Six-state amino acid recoding strategies are commonly applied to combat the effects of compositional heterogeneity and substitution saturation in phylogenetic analyses. While …
S Xiao, Q Tang - Emerging topics in life sciences, 2018 - portlandpress.com
The Tonian Period (ca. 1000–720 Ma) follows the 'boring billion'in the Mesoproterozoic Era and precedes 'snowball Earth'glaciations in the Cryogenian Period. It represents a critical …
M Foerderer, MR Langer - Micropaleontology, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract Raja Ampat (Indonesia) is a remote archipelago west of Papua mainland and situated at the eastern edge of the Coral Triangle. The archipelago is considered one of the …