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
New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell #phylogenomics identifies major groups of marine eugregarine endosymbionts (Apicomplexa) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790326000187
#protists #microbes #parasites #evolution #phylogeny #symbiosis
New #ISEPpapers! A genetic transformation system for the heterotrophic diatom #Nitzschia putrida (Bacillariophyceae) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpy.70070
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
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Environmental #phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown #eukaryotes starting from the mid Proterozoic https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.693929v1.full
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Phylogeny #Proterozoic #Eukaryogenesis
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
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
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
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
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
New #ISEPpapers! Pangenome biology and evolution in harmful algal-bloom-forming pelagophytes https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)00964-9 #protists #algae #microbes #pangenome #genomics #evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Tepsin and AP4 mediate transport from the trans-Golgi to the plant-like vacuole in Toxoplasma https://rupress.org/jcb/article/224/12/e202312109/278366/Tepsin-and-AP4-mediate-transport-from-the-trans
#Toxoplasma #Protists #Parasites #Microbes #Golgi #Evolution
New #ISEPpapers! Natural and artificial variations of the standard genetic code https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01302-8 #Protists #TreeOfLife #Evolution #Microbes #Genetics
Discovery of rare #protist reveals previously unknown branch of eukaryotic tree of life https://phys.org/news/2025-11-discovery-rare-protist-reveals-previously.html
New #ISEPpapers: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09750-0
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #NewSpecies
New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(25)00251-3
"Recently developed environment- and taxon-specific trait databases are a strong foundation for studies of #protist functional diversity, but efforts remain fragmented... a unified trait database for #protists is timely, achievable, and would catalyze transformative research on their #biodiversity, #ecology and #evolution."
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671124v2
"we describe a ciliate undergoing drastic morphological transformations... supergiants increase in size, change shape, and modify their behaviour to cannibalize clonal relatives."
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669136v1.full
New #ISEPpapers! Selective loss of ATP carriers in favour of SLC25A43 orthologues in metamonad #mitochondria adapted to #anaerobiosis: Natalia Janowicz et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsob.240202
New #ISEPpapers! The fluid dynamics and functional diversity of the flagella of free-living flagellates https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/the-fluid-dynamics-and-functional-diversity-of-the-flagella-of-fr
New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryote-Wide Distribution of a Family of Longin Domain-Containing GAP Complexes for Small GTPases https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tra.70016 by Anna Novák Vanclová et al.
#Protists #Microbes #Archaea #Eukaryogenesis #Evolution #Eukaryotes
