The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont
#microbiology #endosymbionts #plastids #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
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#microbiology #endosymbionts #plastids #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
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The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont - Communications Biology
A study reveals an independent case of plastid loss and a metabolic partnership with a bacterial endosymbiont in an understudied lineage of non-photosynthetic ochrophytes.
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September 22, 2026 at 8:09 AM
The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont
#microbiology #endosymbionts #plastids #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#microbiology #endosymbionts #plastids #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky
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Honey, wake up. A new phylogeny of ochrophytes just dropped and the eustigs are still a problem.
It turns out you can lose a secondary plastid of red algal origin! Great collaboration with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Australia and the US.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can lose a secondary plastid of red algal origin! Great collaboration with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Australia and the US.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 8, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Honey, wake up. A new phylogeny of ochrophytes just dropped and the eustigs are still a problem.
It turns out you can lose a secondary plastid of red algal origin! Great collaboration with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Australia and the US.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It turns out you can lose a secondary plastid of red algal origin! Great collaboration with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Australia and the US.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brown algae as other ochrophytes (photosynthetic stramenopiles) have red algal derived plastids. We don’t know how it got there (there are several hypotheses) but it was certainly not from green algae
August 17, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Brown algae as other ochrophytes (photosynthetic stramenopiles) have red algal derived plastids. We don’t know how it got there (there are several hypotheses) but it was certainly not from green algae
Plastid loss and bacterial symbiont gain? Yes, please!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The colorless dictyochophyte Ciliophrys sp. Baltic has lost a plastid but hosts a bacterial endosymbiont - Communications Biology
A study reveals an independent case of plastid loss and a metabolic partnership with a bacterial endosymbiont in an understudied lineage of non-photosynthetic ochrophytes.
www.nature.com
September 29, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Plastid loss and bacterial symbiont gain? Yes, please!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
We analysed the occurrence of putative algae predators and their potential prey, #green_algae and #Ochrophytes. For this we sampled #Antarctica and the #Arctic to have a comparatively lowly diverse habitat. Nonetheless, we found thousands of species, how to deal with them?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We analysed the occurrence of putative algae predators and their potential prey, #green_algae and #Ochrophytes. For this we sampled #Antarctica and the #Arctic to have a comparatively lowly diverse habitat. Nonetheless, we found thousands of species, how to deal with them?