Many “model” protists are maintained in culture and used, experimentally, to answer
questions associated with planktonic processes. Given the current interest and rapidly …

Protists are major consumers of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in the marine
environment, playing a key role in carbon cycling and nutrient regeneration. Consequently …

Heterotrophic dinoflagellates are prevalent protists in marine environments, which play an
important role in the carbon cycling and energy flow in the marine planktonic community …

Aim Patterns of α‐and β‐diversity of soil protist communities and the factors that shape them
remain largely unknown. We undertook a world‐wide survey of forest litter to investigate the …

Thraustochytrids (phylum: Labyrinthulomycota) are nonphotosynthetic marine protists. Some
thraustochytrids have crtIBY, a trifunctional fusion gene encoding a protein capable of β …

Microbial rhodopsins are photoswitchable seven-transmembrane proteins that are widely
distributed in three domains of life, archaea, bacteria and eukarya. Rhodopsins allow the …

Recent studies show that both marine and limnic microalgal species often consist of several
genetically distinct populations. This is also valid for the nuisance freshwater algae …

Marine planktonic organisms endure fluctuations in food abundance and quality during their
life. The degree of resource variability in each specific environment may have forced …

Microzooplankton are ecologically important grazers of phytoplankton and bacteria in
aquatic systems. Inhabiting a three-dimensional realm, the ability of a microzooplankter to …

The genus Alexandrium often forms harmful algal blooms causing human illness and large-
scale mortality of fish and shellfish. Thus, Alexandrium bloom dynamics are primary …