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New #ISEPpapers! Morphological, Molecular Phylogenetic, and Mitochondrial #Genome Characterization of a Deep-Branching Marine Flagellate, Katablepharis ulleungensis sp. nov. ( #Cryptista ) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Genomics #Protists #Microbes
electron microscopic images of microbial cells
October 22, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#Protists #Algae #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Microbes #Evolution
microscopic photos of microbial cells, upper row in normal light, lower in fluorescence
September 17, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Evolution of complex #organelles in ocelloid-bearing dinoflagellates academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

"Warnowiids are known for possessing 2 of the most complex structures known in single cells: multi-projectile nematocysts and the camera eye-like ocelloid"

#Protists #Algae
diagram of functioning of an eye-like structure in a single-celled microbe
August 31, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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New #ISEPpapers #Preprint! #CRISPR / Cas9 #GeneEditing in the heterotrophic protist #Acanthamoeba castellanii www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #ProtistsOnSky
microscopic pictures of microbial cells
August 23, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! Broadening our knowledge of the Trachelophyllidae Kent, 1881 (Litostomatea, Ciliophora): Observations on known species of three genera and a new genus and species from the Czech Republic papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#Protists #Microbes #Ciliates #NewSpecies
black and white drawings of microbial scales
August 23, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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New #ISEPpapers #Preprint! Prokaryotic communities in particle-associated and free-living environments in #OsakaBay are possibly mediated by the microalga, #Heterosigma akashiwo europepmc.org/article/ppr/...

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Microalgae #Prokaryotes
graph of relative abundance of microbes over time
August 23, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Green algal symbionts are stably retained and provisioned in the dark despite a clear physiological cost www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Symbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #Evolution
three electron microscopy pictures of microbial cells
August 22, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! The #malaria parasite #Plasmodium falciparum Vps15 is a Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase interactor important for host-cell cytosol delivery to the food #vacuole and #apicoplast, #mitochondrion dynamics: Alexandra Bourgeois et al. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

#Protists #Parasites
schematic of proteins working in a microbial cell
August 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! An Amoeboflagellate Halosymphonia sogumizoara gen. et sp. nov. (Tulamoebidae) in #Heterolobosea Enhances the Core #Halophilic Radiation of Eukaryotes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Protists #Microbes #Amoebae #Extremophiles #ProtistsOnSky #Evolution
microscopic images of a single-celled amoeboid organism
August 21, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell #transcriptomics reveals lateral transfers of multiple functional genes from #prokaryotes to free-living ciliated #protists in detrital food webs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Microbes #Ciliates #Evolution #Ecology #Genomics
metabolic map
August 19, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! An endogenous energy-metabolizing organelle www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Protists #Microbes #Organelles #Evolution
a schematic picture summarizing an evolutionary scenario about the origin of the organelles discussed in the paper
August 14, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Modeling Site-and-Branch-Heterogeneity with GFmix academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Phylogeny #Evolution #Bioinformatics #Genomics
a figure including heat map from the linked paper
August 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Multiple origins of endogenous virophage and polinton-like virus in the halophilic protist Halocafeteria seosinensis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Microbes #Viruses #Evolution #Extremophiles
map of a genome
August 9, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenetic ancestry of Metamonada proteins points to a common origin of mitochondria in all eukaryotes academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... By Kristína Záhonová et al.

#Protists #Mitochondria #Evolution #Eukaryogenesis #Eukaryotes #Metamonada
Two simplified evolutionary trees presenting alternative evolutionary scenarios discussed in the paper
August 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Skiaviridae: a large DNA virus family that persistently infects thraustochytrid protists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by Jessica Latimer et al.

#Protists #Viruses #Microbes
electron microscopy images of microbial cells infected with viruses
August 5, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! A review of protistan parasites in and around Norwegian marine fish farms link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #FishFarms
a table summarizing results of the linked paper
July 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! CoMR: an integrative scoring pipeline for Comprehensive Mitochondrial proteome Reconstruction across eukaryotes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #ProtistsOnSky #Mitochondria #Bioinformatics #Evolution #Proteomics #Genomics
flowchart of a bioinformatic pipeline
July 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Single cell #genomics and fluorescence microscopy suggest a permanent plastid in a marine centrohelid www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Algae #Microbes #Symbiosis #Evolution #Plastids
two simplified evolutionary trees of microbes
July 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! An extensive morphological and molecular characterization of the neglected class Odontostomatea (Ciliophora) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Protists #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes #Ciliates #Evolution #TreeOfLife
microscopic photos and drawings of microbial cells
July 1, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Microbial and metabolic signatures among #Blastocystis subtypes ST1-ST9 in xenic cultures pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Protists #Parasites #Microbes
illustration of the laboratory methods used in the linked paper
June 30, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! Two essential #Thioredoxins mediate apicoplast biogenesis, protein import, and gene expression in #Toxoplasma gondii pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Evolution
schematic representation of the internal cellular structure of a microbe
June 28, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Eukaryovorous Predation in Evolutionarily Significant Excavate‐Like Flagellates pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution
schematic drawings of microbial cells
June 27, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! Single-cell transcriptomics reveals lateral transfers of multiple functional genes from prokaryotes to free-living ciliated protists in detrital food webs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Protists #Ciliates #Microbes #Evolution
metabolic schematics of microbes
June 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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New #ISEPpapers! Prokaryotic communities in particle-associated and free-living environments in Osaka Bay are possibly mediated by the microalga, Heterosigma akashiwo www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...

#Protists #Algae #Bacteria #Microbes #Microalgae #Ecology
a graph showing relative abundance of various microbes
June 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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New #ISEPpapers! Evolutionary assembly of a unique purple-green photosymbiosis revealed by expanded ciliate diversity academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

#Protists #Bacteria #Ciliates #Symbiosis #Evolution #Microbes
photos of microbial cells and their freshwater pond environment
June 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM