The International Society of Protistologists is an association of scientists devoted to research on single-celled eukaryotes, or protists. The ISOP promotes the presentation and discussion of new or i...

Photosynthetic organelles (plastids), which originated via primary endosymbiosis between an Archaeplastida ancestor and cyanobacteria, have shaped the Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere and spread across ...

We sampled the microbiomes of the two sites in the ecosystems of the Wadden and the North Seas. Microbiome composition changed across ecosystems and seasons but still demonstrated similar functional ....

High-throughput environmental DNA sequencing has ushered ecological and evolutionary studies into the big data era. With thousands to millions of DNA sequences, designing taxon-specific oligonucleoti...

Ottaviani, Gianluigi1, 2, 3, 4  ; Martínez, Alejandro5 ; Petit Bon, Matteo1, 6 ; Mammola, Stefano4, 5, 7 1 Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboñ, Czech Republic 2 Department of…

Sandin et al. reveal a vast, overlooked molecular diversity of Radiolaria, likely skeleton-less, contrasting the traditional view of their star-shaped skeleton. Such comprehensive Radiolaria diversity...

The rise of marine algae stimulated microbial predation at the seafloor, rerouting carbon and energy to the earliest animals.

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The intense, efficient transfer of organic carbon from the surface to the deep Southern Ocean make it a key component of the global carbon cycle. Observations show that this process isn’t always drive...

Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. This Consensus View lays out guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Com...

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Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin