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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Do you have interesting protist research that you want to publish? Now is a great time to consider The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. But don't just take our word for it, check out some of our latest metrics! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1550... #protistsonsky

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A nice tribute to Frank John Rupert “Max” Taylor by Juan F. Saldarriaga and Rowan Haigh. Feel free to share your own remembrances in the comments. #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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OBITUARY: Frank John Rupert “Max” Taylor (July 17, 1939–February 18, 2026)

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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

An unexpected encounter with a former Editor in Chief of JEM while hiking with my son. I insisted on taking the extra detour and told him stories of one of my great mentors and role models.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🔎Check out this image from one of the articles in our Sept/Oct issue: 🔬Two Nanochloropsis gaditana cells visualized by quick-freeze deep-etch electron ▶️Read the article: Goodenough & Roth. Ultrastructure of the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Eukaryotic Microalgae. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

$Two Nanochloropsis gaditana cells visualized by quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy. Left cell displays a chloroplast containing thylakoids, a nucleus, a mitochondrion, and a fracture face of the plasma membrane. In the right cell, the innermost membrane, marked with pits, is the fractured outer membrane of the chloroplast envelope, above which is the fractured outer membrane of the chloroplast ER, above which is the granular cell wall.$

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Editor-in-Chief Joel Dacks looks back on the year and shares some of our new initiatives, including "Issue Highlight" image and AI use guidance. Read about these initiatives and more in the Editor's Message onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

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Summer 2025 Editor‐In‐Chief Message

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The microscopic world is full of surprises! This stunning image captured through SEM reveals the parasite Cyrilia lignieresi living inside a red blood cell of the freshwater fish Synbranchus marmoratus. A rare snapshot of the complexity of life invisible to the naked eye. doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🥳Congratulations to Monica Santin and colleagues for winning the Trager Award for the most cited paper in the past two-year period. ➡️Check out the paper: Division of Blastocystis ST10 into three new subtypes: ST42-ST44 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... #protistsonsky

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We're highlighting some of the best #parasitology papers we've published in the last 5 years. Check out this special collection. #protistsonsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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JEM Spotlight on Parasitology: Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Highlighted paper! Daisuke Yamagishi, et al. open a new front in the drive to understand photosymbiosis in protists. Article➡️ doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Check out exciting protist research in JEM! Holly Moeller et al. explore the feeding habits of Mesodinium rubrum and provide a tool for studying its cell biology and photophysiology in their open access paper in our March/April issue! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

The marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum (bottom right) is famed for its ability to steal chloroplasts and nuclei from red cryptophyte algae in the Teleaulax/Gemingera clade. But even these prey specialists can make "mistakes," ingesting blue-green Hemiselmis pacifica (upper left) and transiently retaining their plastids. Here, a M. rubrum cell points its feeding tentacles (labeled with an anti-centrin antibody, yellow) at an H. pacifica cell. The cryptophyte's flagella and ciliate's cilia (labeled with an anti-tubulin antibody, purple) and nuclei (labeled with DAPI, blue) are visible in this expansion micrograph taken with a Nikon spinning disk confocal microscope. Numerous stolen prey nuclei are visible inside of the M. rubrum cell. See Moeller et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13066

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We’ve published some incredible protist research in the first quarter of 2025! Julia Packer, et al. describe two new species of free-living bacterivores including the one pictured here Novijibodo darinka. Check out the open access paper from our Jan/Feb issue. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

Scanning and transmission electron micrographs of Novijibodo darinka n. gen. n. sp.. Ventral view of cell with flagellar pocket, and cross section of cell with nucleus, mitochondrion containing kinetoplast, microtubular prism (enlarged), and endosymbiotic bacteria. Images taken by J. A. Packer. See Packer et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13072

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Protistologists work around the world in many languages and alphabets. At JEM, we want to meet you as you see yourself. Now authors can also include their names in any script they want in published papers at JEM. Learn how in our Checklist for Manuscript Preparation: bit.ly/3G3PANH #protistsonsky

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Cultivation of Ancyromonas melba, and Reclassification as the Type Species of Divimonas gen. nov., a Phylogenetically Important Ancyromonad Lineage Kate M. Barkhouse, Yana Eglit, Elizabeth J. Weston, Adriana B. A. Jenkins, Alastair G. B. Simpson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protistsonsky

Light microscopy images of Divimonas melba n. gen. n. comb. from multieukaryotic culture CuF1Ancy in 150-ppt media.

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Nicolás Reyes-Quinteros @narqx.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First published paper! I'm thrilled to be a co-author of this work by Jara-Zapata et al., which reports for the first time the presence of the genus Aplanochytrium on the Chilean coast, expanding its geographical distribution 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

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First Record of Aplanochytrium on the Chilean Coast and its Biotechnological Potential: Expanding the Geographic Distribution of Labyrinthulomycetes

This study reports the first record of the genus Aplanochytrium on the coast of Chile, belonging to the class Labyrinthulomycetes in the kingdom Stramenopila. These marine protists play an essential ...

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two Novel Species Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. Gabrielle Martinez, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protistsonsky

Light and scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. found in sea cucumbers.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Broad-range necrophytophagy in the flagellate Orciraptor agilis (Viridiraptoridae, Cercozoa) and the underappreciated role of scavenging among protists Jannika Moye, Sebastian Hess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

Orciraptor agilis (strain OrcA03) feeding on different zygnematophytes

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Effect of protease inhibitors on the intraerythrocytic development of Babesia microti and Babesia duncani, the causative agents of human babesiosis Temitope Aderanti, Jordan M. Marshall, Jose Thekkiniath onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

(A) Chemical structures of proteasome inhibitors including ixazomib, ixazomib citrate and oprozomib (B) Assessment of in vitro dose responses of protease inhibitors against Babesia duncani

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free-living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae Julia A. Packer et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

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Tori Agnew-Camiener, PhD (she/her) @toriagnewcamiener.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚨 New paper! Pathogenicity and phylogeny of Labyrinthula spp. isolated in Washington and Oregon, USA - pathogenic isolates could be identified as L. zosterae, while nonpathogenic isolates did not form a clade with any previously identified SSU ribotypes 🧪onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The planktonic freshwater ciliate Balanion planctonicum (Ciliophora, Prostomatea): A cryptic species complex or a “complex species”? Martina Schalch-Schuler, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky

Schematic illustration of cryptic diversity in a ciliate species, in which several distinct dominant haplotypes (showing also intra-clonal diversity) are hidden behind one morphotype, and a ‘complex ciliate species’ comprising intra-clonal diversity within only one dominant haplotype.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Production of amphisterol and other Δ8(14) sterols by Togula jolla (formerly Amphidinium sensu lato) overlaps chemotaxonomically with Amphidinium carterae | Braedyn E. Hollingsworth, Catharina Alves-de-Souza, Jeffrey D. Leblond onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #protistsonsky

LSU rDNA phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood method showing the relationship between Togula jolla NIES 405 (in bold) and other Togula spp. strains.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

HCN channels are essential for the escape response of Paramecium Daisuke Kandabashi, Mutsumi Kawano, Shinobu Izutani, Hiyori Harada, Takashi Tominaga, Manabu Hori onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social

Localization of HCN1-GFP in Paramecium tetraurelia.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Remarkable genetic variability and high antigenicity of the octapeptide-repeat region in an Entamoeba nuttalli-specific surface protein Tatsuya Imai, Azumi Kakino, Akitomo Sugawara, Xunjia Cheng, Hiroshi Tachibana onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social

Detection of the PTORS gene from genomic DNA of various Entamoeba nuttalli strains.

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Morphology, behavior, and phylogenomics of Oxytoxum lohmannii, Dinoflagellata Elizabeth C. Cooney, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social

Microscopic images and depictions of Oxytoxum lohmannii (SPMC98).

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Morphological and molecular characterization of Eimeria magna infecting local rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Alkarg City, Saudi Arabia Mutee Murshed, et al. #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Photomicrographs of Eimeria magna oocysts

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Functional stress responses in Glaucophyta: Evidence of ethylene and abscisic acid functions in Cyanophora paradoxa Baptiste Genot et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @burnsajohn.bsky.social #protistsonsky @dackslabecb.bsky.social

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Kenneth Dumack @dumack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Interested in #polar #algae and their #predators? In this small paper we describe a novel genus of amoebae preying on #diatoms! Interestingly, the 18S sequence of #arctic and #antarctic isolates is completely identical. Meet Katarium polorum! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.... #protistsonsky

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Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology @jeukmicro.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🚨 New Issue Alert 🚨 On the cover: SEM of a marine gregarine apicomplexan parasite, Amplectina cordis n. gen. et n.sp., showing two gamonts in sygyzy. (See Park & Leander. doi.org/10.1111/jeu....)

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