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Diatoms live in glass houses, with ornate silica cell walls. We propose a new mechanism of branching morphogenesis to quantitatively explain branched silica rib patterns, a recurring pattern feature - just out in PNASNews 🧵pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomplexans, #dinoflagellates and other myzozoans that have made this group so prolific and successful. (1/3) journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mm…

Confused about Stramenopiles, but too shy to ask? Fear not and read further a piece from Dagmar Jirsova now out in ISME doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

Hidden syndinian and perkinsid infections in dinoflagellate hosts revealed by single-cell transcriptomics academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

Charting the landscape of cytoskeletal diversity in microbial eukaryotes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio

A new fascinating symbiosis in plankton unveiled by imaging and physiology: Hijacking and Integration of Algal Plastids and Mitochondria in a Polar Planktonic Host. New preprint of the team led by AR with Omaya Dudin🍉¦ 🦠¦🔬¦ Elisabeth Hehenberger Florian Jug groups biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Biophysics of protist behaviour | Kirsty Y. Wan cell.com/current-biolog…

This is how I teach all vertebrate zoology in one class. Can anyone spot any glaring issues not justified by simplicity? Bear in mind this is a non-majors course — some students don’t know what DNA is.

Happy to share our last publication to evaluate the diversity and ecology of the (mostly) uncultured MAST clades, an eclectic collection of very small unpigmented protists. How marine are Marine Stramenopiles (MAST)? A cross-system evaluation academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

How can a symbiont be located at the center of a host cell while still being an epibiont!? Please read and be astonished about the symbiosis between Anaerameoba and sulfate-reducing bacteria! Now out in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dZGNe (1/11)

Understanding #LECA... Guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor, crucial for evaluating alternative hypotheses about the origin of #eukaryotes @eme_laura Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social) Jeremy Wideman +many #PLOSBiology plos.io/4g0alq4

Very excited to share that, come January, I will be joining the faculty at University of Bath as a Lecturer/Assistant Prof! We’ll be studying all things microbiomes, harmful & beneficial host-microbe interactions, and protist diversity & evolution theholtlab.com for updates! 😁

The Prokaryotic Roots of Eukaryotic Immune Systems annualreviews.org/content/journa…

🚨 New Issue Alert 🚨 On the cover: SEM of a marine gregarine apicomplexan parasite, Amplectina cordis n. gen. et n.sp., showing two gamonts in sygyzy. See Park & Leander. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

Where does pattern come from inside cells? in this revised preprint, @aralbright.bsky.social shows that regionalization of mRNA in a Stentor cell depends on dynein motors and the microtubule cytoskeleton doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Katarium polorum n. sp., n. g., a novel thecofilosean amoeba (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) from the polar oceans Marcel Dominik Solbach, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Retention of blue-green cryptophyte organelles by Mesodinium rubrum and their effects on photophysiology and growth Holly V. Moeller, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

The nature of ‘jaws’: a new predatory representative of Provora and the ultrastructure of nibbling #protists royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Life cycle and morphogenetic differentiation in heteromorphic cell types of a cosmopolitan marine microalga Bousquet et al. Coccolab 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

My colleagues have just finished a decade-long project to write this gorgeous monograph (free to read online!) on testate amoebae of the family Hyalospheniidae 🦠📖🥳 alphil.com/livres/1416-17…