ISEP#ISEPpapers 28: January to June 2026 https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers28
Your twenty-eighth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!
New #ISEPpapers! The spatial #proteome of the #Plasmodium falciparum schizont illuminates the composition and evolutionary trajectories of its organelles https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/1d5b02ef-bc00-4a2f-988a-dad1ee21b1a7
New #ISEPpapers! The evolutionary transition from alga to parasite in the sister lineage of apicomplexans https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982226006470 by Elizabeth Cooney et al.
New #ISEPpapers! Diversity and evolution of DNA polymerase θ in eukaryotes and the origin of mitochondrion-localized DNA polymerase PolIA in euglenozoa https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1434461026000167
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo2/9
Our study, lead by Rubén, compares #protists, animals and plants within a single population-genetic framework.
We ask how their genetic diversity is distributed across the world's oceans.
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Marine population-genetic infe...
Marine population-genetic infe...
2/11
One thing we particularly liked is the scale of the survey.
The authors systematically map multinucleated organisms across #eukaryotes, showing that #multinucleation has evolved repeatedly in fungi, animals, plants, algae and diverse #protists.
That recurrence alone deserves attention.
New #ISEPpapers by @DEEMteam! Reversal to osmotrophy in eukaryotes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03088-0
"Distant eukaryotic lineages convergently reverted from phagocytic predation to osmotrophy through co-option of ancestrally acquired bacterial genes and their subsequent mobilization via eukaryote-to-eukaryote horizontal gene transfer."
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.23.727376v1.full
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Bacteria #Evolution #Symbiosis #Plastids
New #ISEPpapers! CSI-SSU: phylogenetic contamination screening of genomic datasets, demonstrated on The #Protist 10,000 #Genomes (P10K) Project https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-026-12977-4
New #ISEPpapers! Derlin-like proteins are essential for the function of #Euglena gracilis #chloroplasts: Anežka Konupková et al. https://academic.oup.com/plphys/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiag253/8665233
