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The International Society for Evolutionary Protistology Serves People with Interests in the Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Cell Biology, and Evolution of Protists.
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New #ISEPpapers! Colponemidia questions the ancestry of an ATG10-lacking ATG8–ATG12 conjugation system in Alveolata https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jop/57/0/57_e008/_html/-char/en

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Alveolata

New #ISEPpapers! Genome Sequence Data Reveal Complex and Variable Ploidy in the Amoebozoan Acanthamoeba castellanii https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/18/4/evag051/8539986

#Protists #Microbes #Genomics #Amoeba

New #ISEPpapers! A Revised Understanding of Petalomonad Diversity (Petalomonadida; #Euglenida) Enabled by a Cultivation Approach, With Five New Species and Two New Genera https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.70073

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Microscopy #Petalomonads

New #ISEPpapers by Kateřina Koštířová et al.! Capturing the extensive diversity of marine anaerobic scuticociliates (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora) through cultivation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42995-025-00350-5

#Protists #Ciliates #Microbes #Anaerobes

New #ISEPpapers! Seasonality of composition, genomic potential and activity of coniferous forest #soil microbiomes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07163-w

#Protists #Microbes #Fungi #Microbiome #SoilScience #Conifers #Genomics #Forest

New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomics reveals multiple evolutionary lineages of marine crustacean-infecting gregarine apicomplexans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-46824-z

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Evolution #Phylogenomics #Crustaceans #Apicomplexa #Gregarines

New #ISEPpapers! Dynamic stressor regimes drive shifts in biofilm-associated parasites: Annemie Doliwa et al. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-026-08669-3

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Biofilms

New #ISEPpapers! Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Classification of #Barthelonids (Metamonada Incertae Sedis): With Descriptions of Microbarthelona Gen. Nov., and Parabarthelona Gen. Nov. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13087550/

#Protists #Microbes #TreeOfLife #Evolution #Metamonada

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?"

#Protists #Microbes #Symbiosis #Evolution