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#ISEPpapers 25: July, August, and September 2024

Your twenty-fifth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here. Do you like your #ISEPpapers as fresh as possible? Follow us on Mastodon or Bluesky. You can also join our Facebook group. Enjoy!



On the possibility of yet a third kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa. Corinna Benz, Maximilian W. D. Raas, Pragya Tripathi, Drahomíra Faktorová, Eelco C. Tromer, Bungo Akiyoshi, Julius Lukeš. Read.









Characterization of Skoliomonas gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada). Yana Eglit, Shelby K. Williams, Andrew J. Roger, Alastair G. B. Simpson. Read.









A gene-rich mitochondrial genome sheds light on the last eukaryotic common ancestor. Michelle M. Leger, Ryan M. R. Gawryluk. Read.







A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry. Kelsey Williamson, Laura Eme, Hector Baños, Charley McCarthy, Edward Susko, Ryoma Kamikawa, et al. Read.






Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding. Kiran J. More Harpreet Kaur, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Frederick W. Spiegel, Joel B. Dacks. Read.







Investigation of heterotrophs reveals new insights in dinoflagellate evolution. Elizabeth C. Cooney, Corey C. Holt, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Jayd A. Adams, Brian S. Leander, Patrick J. Keeling. Read.




Updated classification of the phylum Parabasalia. Vittorio Boscaro, Erick R. James, Rebecca Fiorito, Javier del Campo, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Patrick J. Keeling. Read.
















Redescription and molecular characterization of Loxocephalus luridus Eberhard, 1862 based on Czech populations: Implications for order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980. William Bourland, Ondřej Pomahač, Kateřina Poláková, Ivan Čepička. Read.













Transcriptome and evolutionary analysis of Pseudotrichomonas keilini, a free-living anaerobic eukaryote. Hend Abu-Elmakarem, Stephen J. Taerum, Celine Petitjean, et al. Read.
















Parallel functional reduction in the mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites. Patrick J. Keeling, Mahara Mtawali, Morelia Trznadel, Samuel J. Livingston, Kevin C. Wakeman. Read.















Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads. Shelby K. Williams, Jon Jerlström Hultqvist, Yana Eglit, Dayana E. Salas-Leiva, et al. Read.





Bit by bit toward the diversity of metopids: Description of the genus Pidimetopus n. gen. (Ciliophora: Armophorea). Ondřej Pomahač, Daniel Méndez-Sánchez, Ivan Čepička. Read.



















Two newly cultivated eukaryotrophic flagellates represent distinct anaerobic lineages within Rhizaria. Yana Eglit, Maggie Lawton, Alastair G.B. Simpson, Ryan M. R. Gawryluk. Read.








Reductitherus cryptostomus n. gen., n. sp. (Ciliophora: Armophorea: Clevelandellida), a remarkable new nyctotherid from an Australian cockroach, Parapanesthia gigantea (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae). Michael Kotyk, Matyáš Soviš, Harley Rose, Nathan Lo, Ivan Čepička, William A. Bourland. Read.












Phylogenomic diversity of archigregarine apicomplexans. Gordon Lax, Eunji Park, Ina Na, Victoria Jacko-Reynolds, Waldan K. Kwong, Chloe S. E. House, Morelia Trznadel, Kevin Wakeman, Brian S. Leander, and Patrick Keeling. Read.

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