evolutionary tree of microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @animalculum.bsky.social, @deemteam.bsky.social
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
evolutionary tree of a group of microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Single‐Cell Transcriptomes and Phylogenomic Analysis of Uncultivated #Oxymonads: Morelia Trznadel et al. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Protists #Microbes #Evolution #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny
Left: schematic evolutionary tree of eukaryotes highlighting the position of apusomonads close to opisthokonts. Right: Simple schematic representation of the cell of apusomonads.
Discovery of a photophobic response in #Apusomonads reveals insights into Opisthokont origins phys.org/news/2026-02...
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Protists
microscopic photos of microbial cells and an evolutionary tree
New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell #phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#protists #microbes #parasites #evolution #phylogeny #symbiosis
microscopic photos of elongated algal cells under light and fluorescence microscopy
New #ISEPpapers! A genetic transformation system for the heterotrophic diatom #Nitzschia putrida (Bacillariophyceae) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Diatoms
a complicated figure from the linked paper that summarizes abundances of microbes
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 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Microbes #Parasites #Drought
a complicated figure from the linked paper showing a large circular evolutionary tree and two graphs
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Environmental #phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown #eukaryotes starting from the mid Proterozoic www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Phylogeny #Proterozoic #Eukaryogenesis
schematic representation of various proteins in mitochondria of a microbial cell
New #ISEPpapers! The mitochondrial proteome of #diplonemids: from conventional pathways to eccentric RNA editing and transcript processing link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Protists #Microbes #Mitochondria #Proteomics #Evolution
a figure from a biology paper showing 3D models of proteins and a circular evolutionary tree
New #ISEPpapers! Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate #Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#Protists #Microbes #Viruses #Genomics
simplified evolutionary trees of single genes from microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryotic Recombinases Duplicated After Divergence From Known Asgard Archaeal RadA: Implications for the Evolution of Sex During Eukaryogenesis academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... by Lisa Matsuo, @dackslabecb.bsky.social
#Microbes #Archaea #AsgardArchaea #Eukaryogenesis
microscopic photos of green single-celled algae
Discovery of the most intron-rich eukaryotic genome phys.org/news/2025-12...
New #ISEPpapers: Nuclear #genome sequencing reveals the highly intron-rich architecture of the chlorarachniophyte alga Amorphochlora amoebiformis academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/...
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Genomics
figure from the paper which shows fluorescence microscopy pictures of microbes
New #ISEPpapers! Nuclear genome sequencing reveals the highly intron-rich architecture of the chlorarachniophyte alga Amorphochlora amoebiformis academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/...
#protists #algae #microbes #genomics
figure from the paper with a Venn diagram and a simple evolutionary tree
New #ISEPpapers! Pangenome biology and evolution in harmful algal-bloom-forming pelagophytes www.cell.com/current-biol... #protists #algae #microbes #pangenome #genomics #evolution
a colorful graphic showing presence and absence of various genes across the diversity of eukaryotes
New #ISEPpapers! Tepsin and AP4 mediate transport from the trans-Golgi to the plant-like vacuole in Toxoplasma rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Toxoplasma #Protists #Parasites #Microbes #Golgi #Evolution
schematic evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with various changes in the genetic code mapped
New #ISEPpapers! Natural and artificial variations of the standard genetic code www.cell.com/current-biol... #Protists #TreeOfLife #Evolution #Microbes #Genetics
illustration of some important traits to include in protist trait databases
New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. www.cell.com/trends/micro...
#protists #algae #microbes #ecology #evolution
various views of microbial cells
New #ISEPpapers! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
"we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives"
#protists #microbes
a figure detailing a proposed evolutionary history of a molecular pathway in eukaryotes
New #ISEPpapers! Selective loss of ATP carriers in favour of SLC25A43 orthologues in metamonad #mitochondria adapted to #anaerobiosis: Natalia Janowicz et al. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Metamonads #Anaerobes #ProtistsOnSky
a figure from the linked paper showing a heatmap
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Evolution #Bioinformatics #Phylogeny #TreeOfLife
simple models of various microbial cells with diverse configurations of flagella
New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates orbit.dtu.dk/en/publicati...
#Protists #Microbes #FluidDynamics #Biophysics
a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with presence and absence of various genes mapped on it in the form of white or colorful circles
New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Anna Novák Vanclová et al., @dackslabecb.bsky.social
#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution #Eukaryotes
microscopic image of a single-celled organism with two long flagella
Rediscovery of the Protist Glissandra: Elucidating the Common Features of the Uncharacterized CRuMs Lineage www.tsukuba.ac.jp/en/research-...
#ISEPpapers by Euki Yazaki et al.: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution
a graph showing relative abundance of various microbial groups during two years
New #ISEPpapers! High Protistan Parasite Occurrence During Fall in a Warm, Low Sea Ice Year in the Eastern #BeringSea: Tanika Ladd et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Ecology #ClimateChange #SeaIce
a figure from a scientific article showing various aspects of a genomic assembly
New #ISEPpapers! New T2T assembly of #Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA II annotated with Legacy-Compatible Gene identifiers www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Genome #Sequencing
a complicated figure showing several steps in evolution of a molecular mechanism in microbial cells
New #ISEPpapers! Repeated duplications and losses shaped SMC complex evolution from archaeal ancestors to modern eukaryotes: Jolien van Hooff et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution
microscopic photos of single-celled algae
New #ISEPpapers! An Update on the Morphology and Phylogeny of the Nanoplanktonic Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum nux: Solenn Mordret et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Algae #Plankton
microscopic pictures of a complicated single-celled organism covered in thin hairs
New #ISEPpapers! Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic #Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine #Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two #NewSpecies Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Protists #Microbes #Symbiosis
schematic representation of a microbe's life cycle
photos of microbes using various types of microscopy
photos and drawings of a microbe
evolutionary tree of eukaryotes
#ISEPpapers 26: October 2024 to March 2025 www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppap...
Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!
#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Bacteria #Archaea #Symbiosis #Parasites
a figure from the linked paper that summarizes evolutionary events of gene loss during the evolution of the discussed bacteria
New #ISEPpapers #prerint! Drastic genome reduction driven by parasitic lifestyle: Two complete genomes of endosymbiotic bacteria possibly hosted by a dinoflagellate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bacteria #symbiosis #genomics #algae #protists
collage of microscopic photos of single-celled organisms
New #ISEPpapers! Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... by Julia Packer et al.
#Protists #Microbes #NewSpecies
