Protists have fascinated microbiologists since their discovery nearly 350 years ago. These
single-celled, eukaryotic species span an incredible range of sizes, forms, and functions …

Aquatic environments harbour large and diverse microbial populations that ensure their
functioning and sustainability. In the current context of global change, characterizing …

Previously we presented Swarm v1, a novel and open source amplicon clustering program
that produced fine-scale molecular operational taxonomic units (OTUs), free of arbitrary …

High animal and plant richness in tropical rainforest communities has long intrigued
naturalists. It is unknown if similar hyperdiversity patterns are reflected at the microbial scale …

Microbes have central roles in ocean food webs and global biogeochemical processes, yet
specific ecological relationships among these taxa are largely unknown. This is in part due …

We tracked temporal changes in protist diversity at the Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) station MareChiara in the Gulf of Naples (Mediterranean Sea) on eight dates in 2011 …

The copy number and sequence variation of the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) operon are of
functional significance in evolution and ecology of organisms. However, the relationship …

Freshwaters worldwide face serious threats, making their protection increasingly important.
Freshwater monitoring has historically produced valuable data and continues to develop …

Deep-sequencing technologies are becoming nearly routine to describe microbial
community composition in environmental samples. The 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) …

Studies of protistan diversity have gained impetus in microbial ecology during the last
decade due primarily to the widespread application of molecular approaches developed …