Ciliates are core components of the structure of and function of aquatic microbial food webs.
They play an essential role in the energy flow and material circulation within aquatic …

Anaerobiosis has independently evolved in multiple lineages of ciliates, allowing them to
colonize a variety of anoxic and oxygen‐depleted habitats. Anaerobic ciliates commonly …

In 1981 I established kingdom Chromista, distinguished from Plantae because of its more
complex chloroplast-associated membrane topology and rigid tubular multipartite ciliary …

Ciliated protists represent one of the most primitive and diverse lineages of eukaryotes, with
nuclear dimorphism, a distinctive sexual process (conjugation), and extensive genome …

Oxygen plays a crucial role in energetic metabolism of most eukaryotes. Yet adaptations to
low-oxygen concentrations leading to anaerobiosis have independently arisen in many …

The phylum Nematoda represents one of the most cosmopolitan and abundant metazoan
groups on Earth. In this study, we reconstructed the phylogenomic tree for phylum …

Due to complex morphological and convergent morphogenetic characters, the systematics
of ciliates has long been ambiguous. Since 1990, the Laboratory of Protozoology, Ocean …

Ciliophora, an exceptionally diverse lineage of unicellular eukaryotes, exhibits a remarkable
range of species richness across classes in the ciliate Tree of Life. In this study, we have …

As a model organism for studies of cell and environmental biology, the free‐living and
cosmopolitan ciliate Euplotes vannus shows intriguing features like dual genome …

Ciliate species within the class Armophorea are widely distributed in various anaerobic
environments, hence they are of great interest to researchers studying evolution and …