New #ISEPpapers by Anna Karnkowska et al.! Living together: evolutionary and ecological dimensions of #protist endosymbiosis https://academic.oup.com/microlife/article/doi/10.1093/femsml/uqag013/8607828
"Despite advances, key questions remain: How widespread and ecologically impactful are protist endosymbioses? What functions do #symbionts provide, and how do associations form, persist, or break down?"
New #ISEPpapers! The genome sequence of the gastric gland parasite, #Cryptosporidium proliferans: Monika Wiśniewska et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226009727
New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @DEEMteam: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic #TreeOfLife with independent phylogenomic data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717153v1.abstract
"analyses confirm most eukaryotic supergroups previously observed, but suggest different positions for some lineages. Notably, Telonemia clusters with Haptophyta rather than SAR, and Ancyromonadida and Malawimonadida form a monophyletic group at the base of the Opimoda."
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #Phylogeny #Bioinformatics #Algae
New #ISEPpapers! Single‐Cell Transcriptomes and Phylogenomic Analysis of Uncultivated #Oxymonads: Morelia Trznadel et al. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13002328/
"Oxymonads are divided into five families in a classification that has remained more or less unchanged for 35 years, but the relationships of these families are unknown... Here, we carry out the first phylogenomic analysis of oxymonads that includes all five families."
Discovery of a photophobic response in #Apusomonads reveals insights into Opisthokont origins https://phys.org/news/2026-02-discovery-photophobic-response-apusomonads-reveals.html
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09209-y
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