European Journal of Protistology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Protistology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Protist diversity and function in the dark ocean – Challenging the paradigms of deep-sea ecology with special emphasis on foraminiferans and naked protists39
Microeukaryotes in animal and plant microbiomes: Ecologies of disease?29
Global comparison of bicosoecid Cafeteria-like flagellates from the deep ocean and surface waters, with reorganization of the family Cafeteriaceae28
Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a new freshwater ciliate, Gonostomum jangbogoensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), from Victoria Land, Antarctica27
Morphology and molecular analyses of four epibiotic peritrichs on crustacean and polychaete hosts, including descriptions of two new species (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)25
Anteholosticha foissneri n. sp., a marine hypotrich ciliate (Ciliophora: Spirotrichea) from Vietnam: Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny22
Morphology and ontogenesis of two new Hemiholosticha species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Hemiholostichidae nov. fam.)21
Reevaluation of the ‘well-known’ Paraurostyla weissei complex, with notes on the ontogenesis of a new Paraurostyla species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)19
Taxonomy, phylogeny, and geographical distribution of the little-known Helicoprorodon multinucleatum Dragesco, 1960 (Ciliophora, Haptorida) and key to species within the genus18
Molecular phylogeny of a new gonostomatid ciliate revealing a discrepancy between interphasic and cell divisional patterns (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)18
Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a novel saline soil ciliate, Heterourosomoida sinica n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)17
Morphogenetic characters of the model ciliate Euplotes vannus (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea): Notes on cortical pattern formation during conjugational and postconjugational reorganization16
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three Epistylis species found in freshwater habitats in China, including the description of E. foissneri n. sp. (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)16
Against growing synonymy: Identification pitfalls of Hepatozoon and Schellackia demonstrated on North Iranian reptiles15
New contributions to the taxonomy of urostylid ciliates (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with establishment of a new genus and new species14
Testate amoebae taxonomy and trait diversity are coupled along an openness and wetness gradient in pine-dominated Baltic bogs14
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new soil ciliates, Hemiurosomoida warreni nov. spec. and Hemiurosoma clampi nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from Tibet14
Xenophyophores (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including four new species and two new genera, from the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone (abyssal equatorial Pacific)13
Molecular identification, differential expression and protective roles of iron/manganese superoxide dismutases in the green algae Closterium ehrenbergii against metal stress12
Morphology, ontogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a new saline soil ciliate, Uroleptoides salina nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)12
Free-living amoebae and other neglected protistan pathogens: Health emergency signals?12
Characterization of Euplotes lynni nov. spec., E. indica nov. spec. and description of E. aediculatus and E. woodruffi (Ciliophora, Euplotidae) using an integrative approach12
Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a novel soil ciliate, Afrokahliella paramacrostoma n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)12
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the anaerobic freshwater ciliate Urostomides spinosus nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Armophorea, Metopida) from China12
A barotolerant ciliate isolated from the abyssal deep sea of the North Atlantic: Euplotes dominicanus sp. n. (Ciliophora, Euplotia)11
A new “flagship” ciliate, Pseudostylonychia obliquocaudata n. gen., n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), from South Korea11
Hyalophysa lynni n. sp. (Ciliophora, Apostomatida), a new pathogenic ciliate and causative agent of shrimp black gill in penaeid shrimp11
Bioactive molecules from protists: Perspectives in biotechnology11
Characterization of a new cosmopolitan genus of trypanosomatid parasites, Obscuromonas gen. nov. (Blastocrithidiinae subfam. nov.)11
New contribution to epigenetic studies: Isolation of micronuclei with high purity and DNA integrity in the model ciliated protist, Tetrahymena thermophila11
Confirmation of the wide host range of Parvilucifera corolla (Alveolata, Perkinsozoa)10
Morphological and phylogenetic investigations shed light on evolutionary relationships of the enigmatic genus Copemetopus (Ciliophora, Alveolata), with the proposal of Copemetopus verae sp. nov.10
Molecular and morphological diversity of monothalamous foraminifera from South Georgia and the Falkland Islands: Description of four new species10
Isolates from ancient permafrost help to elucidate species boundaries in Acanthamoeba castellanii complex (Amoebozoa: Discosea)10
DAPI staining and DNA content estimation of nuclei in uncultivable microbial eukaryotes (Arcellinida and Ciliates)9
Fine-structural characterization and phylogeny of Sphaerodinium (Suessiales, Dinophyceae), with the description of an unusual type of freshwater dinoflagellate cyst9
Broad sampling of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) gives further insight into diversity of non-marine Foraminifera9
Amoeboid protist systematics: A report on the “Systematics of amoeboid protists” symposium at the VIIIth ECOP/ISOP meeting in Rome, 20199
Molecular investigation of Phryganella acropodia Hertwig et Lesser, 1874 (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa)9
The taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two epibiotic colonial peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora, Peritrichia)9
Re-description and molecular phylogeny of the free-swimming peritrichs Hastatella radians Erlanger, 1890 and H. aesculacantha Jarocki & Jakubowska, 1927 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) from China9
18S rRNA gene sequence-structure phylogeny of the Trypanosomatida (Kinetoplastea, Euglenozoa) with special reference to Trypanosoma8
Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VI. Pleurasiga Schiller and Parvicorbicula Deflandre8
Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): Molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments8
Heterocapsa busanensis sp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae): A new marine thecate dinoflagellate from Korean coastal waters8
Phenotypic masquerade: Polymorphism in the life cycle of the centrohelid heliozoan Raphidiophrys heterophryoidea (Haptista: Centroplasthelida)7
Investigating the epibiotic peritrich Zoothamnium intermedium Precht, 1935: Seasonality and distribution of its relationships with copepods in Chesapeake Bay (USA)7
Tubastatin A, a deacetylase inhibitor, as a tool to study the division, cell cycle and microtubule cytoskeleton of trypanosomatids7
A detailed description of a Brazilian Holophrya teres (Ehrenberg, 1834) and nomenclatural revision of the genus Holophrya (Ciliophora, Prostomatida)7
Quantifying the effect of testate amoeba decomposition on peat-based water-table reconstructions7
Checklist, diversity and biogeography of ciliates (Ciliophora) from Chile7
Centrohelid heliozoans of Ukraine with a description of a new genus and species (Haptista: Centroplasthelida)7
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of three freshwater scuticociliates, with descriptions of one new genus and two new species (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)6
Morphology, ontogeny and molecular phylogeny of a new urostylid ciliate, Bakuella (Pseudobakuella) guangdongica n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from southern China6
To the canopy and beyond: Air dispersal as a mechanism of ubiquitous protistan pathogen assembly in tree canopies6
Diversity and phylogeny of percolomonads based on newly discovered species from hypersaline and marine waters6
Comparison between Apicystis cryptica sp. n. and Apicystis bombi (Arthrogregarida, Apicomplexa): Gregarine parasites that cause fat body hypertrophism in bees6
Thecamoeba foliovenanda n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Thecamoebida) – One more case of sibling species among amoebae of the genus Thecamoeba6
The testate amoebae of New Zealand: A checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns6
Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VII. Calotheca Thomsen and Moestrup, Stephanacantha Thomsen and Syndetophyllum Thomsen and Moestrup6
Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies on two new freshwater Amphileptus species (Ciliophora, Pleurostomatida), from Lake Weishan, northern China6
Molecular identification and subtyping of Blastocystis sp. in hospital patients in Central China6
Arcellinida testate amoebae as climate miner's canaries in Southern Spain6
Cafeteria in extreme environments: Investigations on C. burkhardae and three new species from the Atacama Desert and the deep ocean6
Understanding the true burden of “Naegleria fowleri” (Vahlkampfiidae) in patients from Northern states of India: Source tracking and significance5
First insights on the diversity of the genus Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales) in Guadeloupe Island, with emphasis on the phylogenetic position of O. heptagona5
Heterotrophic flagellates and centrohelid heliozoans from marine waters of Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles5
Morphological and molecular investigation on freshwater choanoflagellates (Craspedida, Salpingoecidae) from the River Rhine at Cologne (Germany)5
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species I. – Enibas urnula (Thomsen, 1973) comb. nov. (=Stephanoeca urnula Thomsen, 1973)5
Euplotes octocarinatus Carter, 1972 (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea, Euplotidae): Considerations on its morphology, phylogeny, and biogeography5
Trypanosoma, Paramecium and Tetrahymena: From genomics to flagellar and ciliary structures and cytoskeleton dynamics5
Aggregata polibraxiona n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Aggregatidae) from Octopus bimaculatus Verrill, 1883 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) from the Gulf of California, Mexico5
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two poorly known ciliate genera, Balantidion and Acropisthium (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea), including a new species of Balantidion5
Phylogenetic position and morphology of Raphidiophrys elongata sp. nov. (Haptista: Centroplasthelida) with notes on cyst wall structure and evolution5
Spirotrichonymphea (Parabasalia) symbionts of the termite Paraneotermes simplicicornis5
Colpodean ciliate phylogeny and reference alignments for phylogenetic placements5
Morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a freshwater ciliate, Oxytricha multilineata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)4
Evolutionary insights and brief review of Loxodes Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Loxodidae) with description of a new species from Mexico4
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new brackish pleurostomatid ciliate, Loxophyllum paludosum sp. n. (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Haptoria), from a mangrove wetland in China4
PCR-based identification of thermotolerant free-living amoebae in Italian hot springs4
Winogradsky columns as a strategy to study typically rare microbial eukaryotes4
Cunea russae n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Dactylopodida), another cryptic species of Cunea Kudryavtsev and Pawlowski, 2015, inhabits a continental brackish-water biotope4
A light and electron microscopical study on the resting cyst of the tintinnid Schmidingerella (Alveolata, Ciliophora) including a phylogeny-aware comparison4
Karyotypic instability of endoprophase and mitotic cells of Amoeba sp. strain Cont from the “proteus-type” group (Amoebozoa, Euamoebida, Amoebidae)4
Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of three peniculid ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from China, including a new Frontonia species4
Thecal tabulation, body scale morphology and phylogeny of Heterocapsa philippinensis sp. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) from the Philippines4
Extended divergence estimates and species descriptions of new craspedid choanoflagellates from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile4
Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. IX. Coronoeca gen. nov., Polyfibula Manton and spiny forms of Parvicorbicula Deflandre4
A new species of Uronychia (Spirotrichea: Euplotida) from Argentina4
DNA content in Acanthamoeba during two stress defense reactions: Encystation, pseudocyst formation and cell cycle4
Specific detection and quantification of three microsporidia infecting bees, Nosema apis, Nosema ceranae, and Nosema bombi, using probe-based real-time PCR4
Molecular phylogeny and morphology of Carinadinium gen. nov. (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales), including marine sand-dwelling dinoflagellate species formerly classified within Thecadinium3
Spatial variation in ciliate communities with respect to water quality in the Delhi NCR stretch of River Yamuna, India3
Distribution of soil testate amoeba assemblages along an elevation gradient on Mount Fuji (Japan)3
Spore ultrastructural features and significance of their diverse ornamental elements in the evolutionary history of the order Trichiales (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa)3
Morphology, cell division, and phylogeny of Notohymena antarctica Foissner, 1996 and Engelmanniella mobilis (Engelmann, 1862) Foissner, 1982 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)3
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species II. – Pseudostephanoeca paucicostata (Tong et al., 1998) gen. et comb. nov. (= Stephanoeca diplocostata var. paucicostata Throndsen, 3
Vannella primoblina n. sp. – an unusual species of the genus Vannella (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Vannellida) with pronounced dorsal ridges and folds3
Two hypotrichs (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from China: morphology and SSU rDNA sequence of Holosticha aestuarina nov. spec. and H. muuiensis Kim et al., 20173
Predatory activity of Acanthamoeba sp genotype T4 on different plant growth-promoting bacteria and their combined effect on rice seedling growth3
Exploring the protist microbiome: The diversity of bacterial communities associated with Arcella spp. (Tubulina: Amoebozoa)3
Isolation and identification of herbivorous ciliates from contaminated microalgal cultures3
Role of arginine kinase in Paramecium tetraurelia (Ciliophora, Peniculida): Subcellular localization of AK3 and phosphoarginine shuttle system in cilia3
Characterization and Ca2+-induced expression of calmodulin (CaM) in marine dinoflagellates3
Morphology and spicules elemental composition of Marophrys nikolaevi spec. nov. (Haptista: Centroplasthelida)3
Toxicity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in the model ciliate Paramecium multimicronucleatum: Molecular mechanisms of activation are dose- and particle size-dependent2
Characteristics analyses of Eimeria tenella 14-3-3 protein and verification of its interaction with calcium-dependent protein kinase 42
Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857): Ehrenberg's ambassador to America2
Description of a new species of marine amoeba Korotnevella mutabilis n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Dactylopodida)2
Temperature-dependent resistance to starvation of three contrasting freshwater ciliates2
First redescription and molecular phylogeny of Trimyema claviforme Kahl, 1933 with the description of a Chinese population of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 (Ciliophora, Plagiopylea)2
On Edouard Claparède and Johannes Lachmann (Clap & Lach) and their “Etudes sur les Infusoires et les Rhizopodes”2
Thecamoeba vumurta n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Thecamoebida) from freshwater pond sediment – a sibling species of T. striata (Penard, 1890) Schaeffer, 19262
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three freshwater scuticociliates, with establishments of one new genus and three new species (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)2
Analysis of autapomorphic point mutations provides a key for the tangled taxonomic distinction of the closely related species, Euplotes crassus, E. minuta and E. vannus (Ciliophora, Euplotida)2
A reassessment of testate amoebae diversity in Tierra del Fuego peatlands: Implications for large scale inferences2
Redescription and phylogenetic position of the terrestrial ciliates Gastrostylides dorsicirratus and Heterourosomoida lanceolata (Hypotricha, Dorsomarginalia)2
Morphological and molecular diversity of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including two new species and a new genus, from SW Greenland2
Loricate choanoflagellates (Acanthoecida) from warm water seas. VIII. Crinolina Thomsen and Diaphanoeca Ellis2
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of the benthic dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales) Amphidiniopsis crumena n. sp. and Amphidiniopsis nileribanjensis n. sp.2
Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of Lamtostyla granulifera sinensis subsp. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from a wetland in China2
Primary ciliary dyskinesia relative protein ZMYND10 is involved in regulating ciliary function and intraflagellar transport in Paramecium tetraurelia2
The in vivo Tetrahymena thermophila extracellular glucose drop assay for characterization of mammalian insulin activity2
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Keronopsis koreana n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), a new soil species from South Korea2
High diversity and isolated distribution of aquatic heterotrophic protists in salars of the Atacama Desert at different salinities2
A first account of the heterotrophic eukaryote Rabdiophrys Rainer from the fossil record and description of a new species from an ancient Eocene Arctic freshwater lake2
Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Parvodinium cunningtonii comb. nov. (syn. Peridiniopsis cunningtonii) and description of P. cunningtonii var. inerme var. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae)2
Host–parasite interactions in vector-borne protozoan infections2
Morphology and morphogenesis of the hypotrich ciliate Parentocirrus hortualis Voβ, 1997, with notes on the phylogeny of Parentocirrus (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)2
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two new Blepharisma species (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) from northeastern China2
SEM observation of non-fixed and water freeze-dried Spirostomum ambiguum2
Thecamoeba astrologa n. sp. – A new species of the genus Thecamoeba (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Thecamoebida) with an unusually polymorphic nuclear structure2
Comparative analysis of single-cell genome sequencing techniques toward the characterization of germline and somatic genomes in ciliated protists2
Morphology and taxonomy of Pseudokeronopsis rubra (Ehrenberg, 1836) and Pseudokeronopsis parasongi sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Urostylida) from the Yellow Sea2
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