Bioluminescence in the sea

SHD Haddock, MA Moline… - Annual review of marine …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Bioluminescence spans all oceanic dimensions and has evolved many times—from bacteria
to fish—to powerfully influence behavioral and ecosystem dynamics. New methods and …

Untangling the Phylogeny of Amoeboid Protists1

J Pawlowski, F Burki - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The amoebae and amoeboid protists form a large and diverse assemblage of eukaryotes
characterized by various types of pseudopodia. For convenience, the traditional morphology …

Global eukaryote phylogeny: combined small-and large-subunit ribosomal DNA trees support monophyly of Rhizaria, Retaria and Excavata

D Moreira, S von der Heyden, D Bass… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2007 - Elsevier
Resolution of the phylogenetic relationships among the major eukaryotic groups is one of
the most important problems in evolutionary biology that is still only partially solved. This …

Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria

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 …

Ecology and diversity of picoeukaryotes

AZ Worden, F Not - Microbial ecology of the Oceans, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial, single-celled eukaryotes (protists) play a wide range of ecological roles in marine
environments. Like all eukaryotes, protists are the evolutionary product of one or several …

Molecular analyses of protists in long-term observation programmes—current status and future perspectives

R Stern, A Kraberg, E Bresnan… - Journal of Plankton …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Protists (microbial eukaryotes) are diverse, major components of marine ecosystems, and
are fundamental to ecosystem services. In the last 10 years, molecular studies have …

Molecular characterization of ciliate diversity in stream biofilms

A Dopheide, G Lear, R Stott… - Applied and Environmental …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Free-living protozoa are thought to be of fundamental importance in aquatic ecosystems, but
there is limited understanding of their diversity and ecological role, particularly in surface …

Deep relationships of Rhizaria revealed by phylogenomics: a farewell to Haeckel's Radiolaria

R Sierra, MV Matz, G Aglyamova, L Pillet… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
Rhizaria is one of the six supergroups of eukaryotes, which comprise the majority of
amoeboid and skeleton-building protists living in freshwater and marine ecosystems. There …

Radiolaria: achievements and unresolved issues: taxonomy and cytology

N Suzuki, Y Aita - Plankton and Benthos Research, 2011 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The essentials of the taxonomy and cytology of Radiolaria at the order level are summarized
from approximately 110 papers. Living Radiolaria comprise representatives of the following …

Molecular diversity of alveolates associated with neritic North Atlantic radiolarians

JK Dolven, C Lindqvist, VA Albert, KR Bjørklund… - Protist, 2007 - Elsevier
Seven species of polycystine radiolarians and one phaeodarian species were investigated
in order to determine the diversity of their associate organisms and their species specificity …