The protozoan parasites Cryptosporidium and Giardia are significant causes of diarrhoea
worldwide and are responsible for numerous waterborne and foodborne outbreaks of …

Myzozoans encompass apicomplexans and dinoflagellates that manifest diverse lifestyles in
highly varied environments. They show enormous propensity to employ different metabolic …

Apicomplexans and related lineages comprise many obligate symbionts of animals; some of
which cause notorious diseases such as malaria. They evolved from photosynthetic …

Gregarines are an early-diverging lineage of apicomplexan parasites that hold many clues
into the origin and evolution of the group, a remarkable transition from free-living …

Protists (microbial eukaryotes) are a critically important but understudied group of
microorganisms. They are ubiquitous, represent most of the genetic and functional diversity …

Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS) can co-transport externally and internally other
organisms including viruses, bacteria and other eukaryotes (including metazoan parasites) …

The yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor, is currently one of the most important insect species
produced for livestock feed and human consumption. High-density rearing conditions make …

Blastocystis is a genetically diverse microbial eukaryote thriving in the gut of humans and
other animals. While Blastocystis has been linked with gastrointestinal disorders, its …

The size-plasticity hypothesis posits that larger size organisms are less plastic in their
metabolic rates and, therefore, are more strongly environmental-filtered than smaller …

Studies of animal and plant microbiomes are burgeoning, but the majority of these focus on
bacteria and rarely include microeukaryotes other than fungi. However, there is growing …