Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

Understanding the structure, functions, activities and dynamics of microbial communities in
natural environments is one of the grand challenges of 21st century science. To address this …

Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Although protists are critical components of marine ecosystems, they are still poorly
characterized. Here we analysed the taxonomic diversity of planktonic and benthic protist …

The ocean constitutes one of the vastest and richest biomes on our planet. Most recent
estimations, all based on indirect approaches, suggest that there are millions of marine …

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

Illumina sequencing is a representative tool for understanding the massive diversity of
microbial eukaryotes in natural ecosystems. Here, we investigated the eukaryotic community …

Among the many inhabitants of planktonic communities, several lineages have
biomineralized intricate skeletons. These have existed for millions of years and include the …

Illumina's MiSeq has become the dominant platform for gene amplicon sequencing in
microbial ecology studies; however, various technical concerns, such as reproducibility, still …

Benthic microeukaryotes are key ecosystem drivers in marine sandy beaches, an important
and dynamic environment; however, little is known about their diversity and biogeography …