Search Results - "Mylnikov, Alexander P"
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Non-photosynthetic predators are sister to red algae
Published in Nature (London) (01-08-2019)“…Rhodophyta (red algae) is one of three lineages of Archaeplastida 1 , a supergroup that is united by the primary endosymbiotic origin of plastids in eukaryotes…”
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Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of Centrohelida, Haptophyta and Cryptista
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (27-01-2016)“…Assembling the global eukaryotic tree of life has long been a major effort of Biology. In recent years, pushed by the new availability of genome-scale data for…”
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A New Lineage of Eukaryotes Illuminates Early Mitochondrial Genome Reduction
Published in Current biology (04-12-2017)“…The origin of eukaryotic cells represents a key transition in cellular evolution and is closely tied to outstanding questions about mitochondrial endosymbiosis…”
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New Phylogenomic Analysis of the Enigmatic Phylum Telonemia Further Resolves the Eukaryote Tree of Life
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-04-2019)“…The resolution of the broad-scale tree of eukaryotes is constantly improving, but the evolutionary origin of several major groups remains unknown. Resolving…”
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Factors mediating plastid dependency and the origins of parasitism in apicomplexans and their close relatives
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-08-2015)“…Apicomplexans are a major lineage of parasites, including causative agents of malaria and toxoplasmosis. How such highly adapted parasites evolved from…”
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Insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity from predatory unicellular relatives of animals
Published in BMC biology (09-04-2020)“…The origin of animals from their unicellular ancestor was one of the most important events in evolutionary history, but the nature and the order of events…”
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Microbial predators form a new supergroup of eukaryotes
Published in Nature (London) (22-12-2022)“…Molecular phylogenetics of microbial eukaryotes has reshaped the tree of life by establishing broad taxonomic divisions, termed supergroups, that supersede the…”
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First finding of free-living representatives of Prokinetoplastina and their nuclear and mitochondrial genomes
Published in Scientific reports (03-02-2021)“…Kinetoplastids are heterotrophic flagellated protists, including important parasites of humans and animals (trypanosomatids), and ecologically important…”
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Colponemids Represent Multiple Ancient Alveolate Lineages
Published in Current biology (16-12-2013)“…The alveolates comprise three well-studied protist lineages of significant environmental, medical, and economical importance: apicomplexans (e.g., Plasmodium),…”
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Description of Colponema vietnamica sp.n. and Acavomonas peruviana n. gen. n. sp., two new alveolate phyla (Colponemidia nom. nov. and Acavomonidia nom. nov.) and their contributions to reconstructing the ancestral state of alveolates and eukaryotes
Published in PloS one (01-04-2014)“…The evolutionary and ecological importance of predatory flagellates are too often overlooked. This is not only a gap in our understanding of microbial…”
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origin of Metazoa: a transition from temporal to spatial cell differentiation
Published in BioEssays (01-07-2009)“…For over a century, Haeckel's Gastraea theory remained a dominant theory to explain the origin of multicellular animals. According to this theory, the animal…”
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On the origin of TSAR: morphology, diversity and phylogeny of Telonemia
Published in Open biology (01-03-2022)“…Telonemia is a poorly known major phylum of flagellated eukaryotes with a unique combination of morphological traits. Phylogenomics recently revealed the…”
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The Morphology, Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogeny of a New Freshwater Heterolobose Amoeba Parafumarolamoeba stagnalis n. sp. (Vahlkampfiidae; Heterolobosea)
Published in Diversity (Basel) (01-09-2021)“…Heterolobose amoebae are important members of marine, freshwater, and soil microbial communities, but their diversity remains under-explored. We studied the…”
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Ecologically relevant choanoflagellates collected from hypoxic water masses of the Baltic Sea have untypical mitochondrial cristae
Published in BMC microbiology (21-11-2012)“…Protist communities inhabiting oxygen depleted waters have so far been characterized through both microscopical observations and sequence based techniques…”
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The Twilight of Heliozoa and Rise of Rhizaria, an Emerging Supergroup of Amoeboid Eukaryotes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (25-05-2004)“…Recent molecular phylogenetic studies revealed the extraordinary diversity of single-celled eukaryotes. However, the proper assessment of this diversity and…”
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Heterokont Predator Develorapax marinus gen. et sp. nov. - A Model of the Ochrophyte Ancestor
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (03-08-2016)“…Heterotrophic lineages of Heterokonta (or stramenopiles), in contrast to a single monophyletic group of autotrophs, Ochrophyta, form several clades that…”
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Molecular Comparisons of Freshwater and Marine Isolates of the Same Morphospecies of Heterotrophic Flagellates
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-10-2006)“…Heterotrophic flagellates are key components of all ecosystems. Understanding the patterns of biodiversity of these organisms is thus particularly important…”
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Molecular Phylogeny of Cercomonadidae and Kinetid Patterns of Cercomonas and Eocercomonas gen. nov. (Cercomonadida, Cercozoa)
Published in Plant science (Limerick) (01-06-2006)“…Cercomonads are among the most abundant and widespread zooflagellates in soil and freshwater. We cultured 22 strains and report their complete 18S rRNA…”
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Moramonas marocensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: a jakobid flagellate isolated from desert soil with a bacteria-like, but bloated mitochondrial genome
Published in Open biology (01-02-2016)“…A new jakobid genus has been isolated from Moroccan desert soil. The cyst-forming protist Moramonas marocensis gen. nov., sp. nov. has two anteriorly inserted…”
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Novel Predators Reshape Holozoan Phylogeny and Reveal the Presence of a Two-Component Signaling System in the Ancestor of Animals
Published in Current biology (10-07-2017)“…Our understanding of the origin of animals has been transformed by characterizing their most closely related, unicellular sisters: the choanoflagellates,…”
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