The limitations of a traditional morphology-based classification of Foraminifera have been
demonstrated by molecular phylogenetic studies for several years now. Despite the …

Benthic foraminifers inhabit a wide range of aquatic environments including open marine,
brackish, and freshwater environments. Here we show that several different and diverse …

The nature and extent of diversity in the plankton has fascinated scientists for over a century.
Initially, the discovery of many new species in the remarkably uniform and unstructured …

Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield
records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia …

Because the Foraminifera are very sensitive to various environmental parameters (eg, water
temperature, salinity, light, etc.), there are important proxies used for palaeoenvironmental …

Genetic characterisation (SSU rRNA genotyping) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
imaging of individual tests were used in tandem to determine the modern species richness …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Rose Bengal stained benthic foraminifera were studied from 11 cores collected along two
depth transects off southern Portugal: one in the Lisbon–Setúbal Canyon and the other …

Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequences have been shown to be very useful for identification of
microbial eukaryotes. Usually, complete or long partial sequences of the rDNA genes are …

Benthic foraminifera are unicellular eukaryotes that inhabit sediments of aquatic
environments. Several foraminifera of the order Rotaliida are known to store and use nitrate …