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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

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution

New #ISEPpapers! A genetic transformation system for the heterotrophic diatom #Nitzschia putrida (Bacillariophyceae) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpy.70070

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Diatoms

New #ISEPpapers! Legacies of consecutive summer droughts on soil-borne plant parasitic #protists (Oomycota and Phytomyxea) and protistan consumers (Cercozoa) along an experimental plant diversity gradient https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70756

#Microbes #Parasites #Drought

New #ISEPpapers! The mitochondrial proteome of #diplonemids: from conventional pathways to eccentric RNA editing and transcript processing https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-025-12233-1

#Protists #Microbes #Mitochondria #Proteomics #Evolution

New #ISEPpapers! Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate #Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.002200

#Protists #Microbes #Viruses #Genomics

New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryotic Recombinases Duplicated After Divergence From Known Asgard Archaeal RadA: Implications for the Evolution of Sex During Eukaryogenesis https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/12/evaf240/8402114 by Lisa Matsuo, @DacksLabECB

#Microbes #Archaea #AsgardArchaea #Eukaryogenesis

Discovery of the most intron-rich eukaryotic genome https://phys.org/news/2025-12-discovery-intron-rich-eukaryotic-genome.html

New #ISEPpapers: Nuclear #genome sequencing reveals the highly intron-rich architecture of the chlorarachniophyte alga Amorphochlora amoebiformis https://academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dnares/dsaf035/8348290

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Genomics

New #ISEPpapers! Nuclear genome sequencing reveals the highly intron-rich architecture of the chlorarachniophyte alga Amorphochlora amoebiformis https://academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/advance-article/doi/10.1093/dnares/dsaf035/8348290

#protists #algae #microbes #genomics