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 …

Over 600 million years ago, animals evolved from a unicellular or colonial organism whose
cell (s) captured bacteria with a collar complex, a flagellum surrounded by a microvillar …

Taxonomic names are key links between various databases that store information on
different organisms. Several global fungal nomenclural and taxonomic databases (notably …

This revision of the classification of eukaryotes, which updates that of Adl et al.[J. Eukaryot.
Microbiol. 52 (2005) 399], retains an emphasis on the protists and incorporates changes …

The class Myxomycetes consists of free-living protists characterised by their complex life
cycle, which includes both microscopic (amoebae, flagellates and cists) and macroscopic …

Amoebozoa is the eukaryotic supergroup sister to Obazoa, the lineage that contains the
animals and Fungi, as well as their protistan relatives, and the breviate and apusomonad …

The traditional classification of the Myxomycetes (Myxogastrea) into five orders
(Echinosteliales, Liceales, Trichiales, Stemonitidales and Physarales), used in all …

I discuss how different feeding modes and related cellular structures map onto the eukaryote
evolutionary tree. Centrally important for understanding eukaryotic cell diversity are …

Because of its peculiar biology and the ease with which it can be cultured, the acellular
slime mould Physarum polycephalum has long been a model organism in a range of …

Myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime molds, are a monophyletic group of amoeboid protists
whose classification is based mainly on morphological features of fruiting bodies. Although …