With highly specialized morphology and unexplored functional capacities, ciliates from extreme habitats are drawing increasing attention. During a mic......
Coelastrum proboscideum Bohlin, 1896 (Sphaeropleales, Scenedesmaceae, Chlorophyta) is a coenobial species with cosmopolitan distribution in diverse fr......
In the current circumscription, the Thoracosphaeraceae comprise all dinophytes exhibiting calcified coccoid cells produced during their life-history. ......
Dictyostelid cellular slime molds (dictyostelids) are important soil microorganisms that feed mostly on bacteria in the soil and leaf litter layer. Th......
Hariotina reticulate P. A. Dangeard 1889 (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta) is a common member of the summer phytoplankton of meso- to highly eutrophic wat......
Desmodesmus costato-granulatus (Skuja) Hegewald 2000 (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta) is a small, spineless green alga that is abundant in the freshwater......
Consortia of the peritrich ciliate Vorticella oceanica and the planktonic diatom Chaetoceros coarctactus are reported from the South Atlantic Ocean. T......
In Tetrahymena, K antigens associate only with mature basal bodies and are expected to play important roles in the morphogenesis and function of the m......
To understand the diversity of the diatom genus Chaetoceros Ehrenberg, the C. lorenzianus complex was previously chosen as a model and three new speci......
The estimation of the diversity and geographic distribution of protists in particular ciliates has long been an ongoing debate. We estimated the distr......
Three epibiotic Epistylis species, i.e., Epistylis weishanensis sp. nov., Epistylis daphniae Faure-Fremiet, 1905, and Epistylis pygmaeum (Ehrenberg, 1......
A new bakuellid ciliate, Holostichides eastensis nov. spec. isolated from China, is investigated in terms of its morphology, ontogenesis, and molecula......
The Class Nassophorea is not monophyletic with unsolved relationship of four orders, which calls for discussion to combine morphological features and ......
