Predation in a microbial world: Mechanisms and trade-offs of flagellate foraging

T Kiørboe - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Heterotrophic nanoflagellates are the main consumers of bacteria and picophytoplankton in
the ocean and thus play a key role in ocean biogeochemistry. They are found in all major …

Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes

TA Richards, L Eme, JM Archibald, G Leonard… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of
biology. A key challenge relevant to the question of eukaryogenesis is reconstructing the …

Choanoflagellates alongside diverse uncultured predatory protists consume the abundant open-ocean cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

S Wilken, CCM Yung, C Poirier… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Prochlorococcus is a key member of open-ocean primary producer communities. Despite its
importance, little is known about the predators that consume this cyanobacterium and make …

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora

Y Eglit, T Shiratori, J Jerlström-Hultqvist, K Williamson… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Summary" Kingdom-level" branches are being added to the tree of eukaryotes at a rate
approaching one per year, with no signs of slowing down. 1, 2, 3, 4 Some are completely …

Phylogenomics of neglected flagellated protists supports a revised eukaryotic tree of life

G Torruella, LJ Galindo, D Moreira, P López-García - Current Biology, 2025 - cell.com
Eukaryotes evolved from prokaryotic predecessors in the early Proterozoic 1, 2 and radiated
from their already complex last common ancestor, 3 diversifying into several supergroups …

Phylogenomic position of genetically diverse phagotrophic stramenopile flagellates in the sediment-associated MAST-6 lineage and a potentially halotolerant …

A Cho, DV Tikhonenkov, G Lax, KI Prokina… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unlike morphologically conspicuous ochrophytes, many flagellates belonging to basally
branching stramenopiles are small and often overlooked. As a result, many of these …

Foraging mechanisms in excavate flagellates shed light on the functional ecology of early eukaryotes

S Suzuki-Tellier, F Miano… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The phagotrophic flagellates described as “typical excavates” have been hypothesized to be
morphologically similar to the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor and understanding the …

[PDF][PDF] A novel group of dynamin-related proteins shared by eukaryotes and giant viruses is able to remodel mitochondria from within the matrix

S Sheikh, T Pánek, O Gahura, J Týč… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The diverse GTPases of the dynamin superfamily play various roles in the cell, as
exemplified by the dynamin-related proteins (DRPs) Mgm1 and Opa1, which remodel the …

Encyclopedia of Family A DNA Polymerases Localized in Organelles: Evolutionary Contribution of Bacteria Including the Proto-Mitochondrion

R Harada, Y Hirakawa, A Yabuki, E Kim… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA polymerases synthesize DNA from deoxyribonucleotides in a semiconservative
manner and serve as the core of DNA replication and repair machinery. In eukaryotic cells …

EARLY NODULIN93 acts via cytochrome c oxidase to alter respiratory ATP production and root growth in plants

CP Lee, XH Le, RMR Gawryluk, JA Casaretto… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract EARLY NODULIN 93 (ENOD93) has been genetically associated with biological
nitrogen fixation in legumes and nitrogen use efficiency in cereals, but its precise function is …