The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems is currently based on various biotic indices that
use the occurrence and/or abundance of selected taxonomic groups to define ecological …

Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now …

Popular de novo amplicon clustering methods suffer from two fundamental flaws: arbitrary
global clustering thresholds, and input-order dependency induced by centroid selection …

The phylum Ciliophora plays important roles in a wide range of biological studies. However,
the evolutionary relationships of many groups remain unclear due to a lack of sufficient …

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 …

The small subunit 18S rRNA (18S) gene is the most commonly used marker for taxonomic
identification in eukaryotes. However, protists may harbor substantial variation in their 18S …

Eukaryotic plankton are a core component of marine ecosystems with exceptional taxonomic
and ecological diversity, yet how their ecology interacts with the environment to drive global …

Streptophytes are one of the major groups of the green lineage (Chloroplastida or
Viridiplantae). During one billion years of evolution, streptophytes have radiated into an …

During the last decade, high‐throughput metabarcoding became routine for analyzing
protistan diversity and distributions in nature. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

Surveying microbial diversity and function is accomplished by combining complementary
molecular tools. Among them, metagenomics is a PCR free approach that contains all …