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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Characteristics analyses of Eimeria tenella 14-3-3 protein and verification of its interaction with calcium-dependent protein kinase 421
Composition of cercozoan diversity: Unravelling leaf, root, and soil specificity in crop plants18
Two new freshwater foraminiferal species (SAR, Rhizaria) from Dinaric karst caves (southeastern Europe)17
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Euplotes baugilensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), with an illustrated key to Euplotes species with reduced cirri15
Leptomyxa mirabilis n. sp. – A new species of the genus Leptomyxa (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea) with a remarkable floating form and unusual cyst structure15
A light and electron microscopical study on the resting cyst of the tintinnid Schmidingerella (Alveolata, Ciliophora) including a phylogeny-aware comparison12
Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a novel saline soil ciliate, Urosoma quadrinucleatum n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)12
It's time to consider the Arcellinida shell as a weapon11
An investigation into the morphological variation and ecological-environmental range of Cyphoderia compressa: A case study of Scottish material11
The devil is in the details: Cylindrifflugia luciferina spec. nov. reveals the phylogenetic backbone of the infraorder Cylindrothecina (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida)11
Euplotes huizhouensis nom. nov. (Ciliophora, Euplotida), a replacement name for the junior primary homonym Euplotes tuffraui Lian et al., 202111
Nuclear genome of dinoflagellates: Size variation and insights into evolutionary mechanisms11
Thecamoeba vumurta n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Thecamoebida) from freshwater pond sediment – a sibling species of T. striata (Penard, 1890) Schaeffer, 192610
Protist diversity and co-occurrence patterns obtained by metabarcoding of terricolous lichens, coastal cliffs and a microbial mat in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile10
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species of Psammophaga (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the west coast of India10
Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a new brackish water ciliate, Heterodeviata longa nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)10
Molecular phylogeny of Chonotrichia (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) inferred from SSU rDNA sequences10
Taxonomy and phylogeny of three species in Perichaena sensu lato (Myxomycetes = Myxogastria) from China10
Algal organic matter alters protistan community structure and assembly processes in coastal sediments9
Revision of the Acanthocystis turfacea species complex, description of Acanthocystis pohjolensis n. sp. and notes on the phylogeny of Acanthocystis9
SEM observation of non-fixed and water freeze-dried Spirostomum ambiguum9
Description of Holostichides (Extraholostichides) eastensis tianjinensis subgen. nov. subspec. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from northern China8
Architecture of the flagellar apparatus and related structures in Kolkwitziella acuta: Towards a fine-structural characterization of pallium-feeding dinoflagellates (Protoperidiniaceae)8
First redescription and molecular phylogeny of Trimyema claviforme Kahl, 1933 with the description of a Chinese population of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 (Ciliophora, Plagiopylea)8
Morphology and phylogeny of four trachelocercid ciliates (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Trachelocercidae) from North China Sea, with description of a new species8
Newly identified diversity of Dinomycetaceae (Rhizophydiales, Chytridiomycota), a family of fungal parasites of marine dinoflagellates8
An approach to evaluating seasonal responses to acute toxicity of antibiotic nitrofurazone on periphytic ciliated protist communities in marine environments8
Morphogenesis of the anaerobic ciliate Tropidoatractus levanderi (Ciliophora, Armophorea, Metopida), with notes on conjugation and molecular phylogeny8
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species I. – Enibas urnula (Thomsen, 1973) comb. nov. (=Stephanoeca urnula Thomsen, 1973)7
Epiphytic and fimicolous myxomycetes on the island Hiddensee (Germany): rare species, new genotypes and unexpected ecological preferences7
Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of three peniculid ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from China, including a new Frontonia species7
Protistology-UK22 Autumn Meeting Report7
Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Parvodinium cunningtonii comb. nov. (syn. Peridiniopsis cunningtonii) and description of P. cunningtonii var. inerme var. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae)7
Jirovecia branchilis n. sp. (Microsporidia) from glands of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) in China7
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Exploring the protist microbiome: The diversity of bacterial communities associated with Arcella spp. (Tubulina: Amoebozoa)7
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new hypotrichous ciliate, Sterkiella zhangi n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oxytrichidae)7
Quantitative analysis of trichocysts in Paramecium bursaria following artificial removal and infection with the symbiotic Chlorella variabilis6
Evolutionary insights and brief review of Loxodes Ehrenberg, 1830 (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Loxodidae) with description of a new species from Mexico6
Characterization of the macronuclear and micronuclear pheromone genes of Euplotes raikovi reveals the origin of the mating type genetic diversity6
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Diversity of protists in dryland habitats of Qatar revealed by environmental metabarcoding6
Morphology and phylogeny of Pararaabena dentata Wolska, 1968 and further insights into the molecular evolution of trichostome ciliates (Ciliophora, Litostomatea)6
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species II. – Pseudostephanoeca paucicostata (Tong et al., 1998) gen. et comb. nov. (= Stephanoeca diplocostata var. paucicostata Throndsen, 6
Coleps shanghaiensis n. sp. challenges the validity of the genus Levicoleps (Ciliophora, Prostomatida)6
O short-branch Microsporidia, where art thou? Identifying diversity hotspots for future sampling5
First contours of autecology of freshwater heterotrophic euglenoids – results of two-year research on 18 freshwater bodies5
Enchelyothrix muria n. gen, n. sp., (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Spathidiida), an extreme halotroph spathidiid from Maharloo Lake, Iran5
The athecate dinoflagellate genus Karlodinium (Kareniaceae: Dinophyceae) from Mexican coastal waters, with three new records for the eastern Pacific Ocean5
High molecular diversity in the functional group of small bacterivorous non-scaled chrysomonad flagellates5
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Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of Aspidisca koreana n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida) from South Korea5
Corrigendum to “Morphologic and molecular characterization of Apertospathula pilata n. sp., a novel freshwater spathidiid (Ciliophora Litostomatea) from Idaho USA” [Eur. J. Protistol. 89 (2023) 1259905
Armaparvus browni sp. nov. (Amoebozoa, Cutosea) isolated from an inland brackish water biotope5
Morphology and multi-gene phylogeny of Rubrioxytricha hasllaensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) from South Korea5
Ciliates from the intestine of zoo-kept black rhinoceros, with immunofluorescence microscopic and molecular phylogenetic investigation of Rhinozeta rhinozeta (Litostomatea)5
Testate amoebae (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) community diversity in New England bogs and fens assessed through lineage-specific amplicon sequencing5
Parallel functional reduction in the mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites5
Redescription and molecular phylogeny of Trochilia sigmoides Dujardin, 1841 (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria) collected from South Korea4
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two poorly known ciliate genera, Balantidion and Acropisthium (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea), including a new species of Balantidion4
Acanthamoeba castellanii trophozoites escape killing by neutrophil extracellular traps using their 3′-nucleotidase/nuclease activity4
Copterus tyloloricatus (Ciliophora, Suctorea), a new suctorian genus and species4
Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of three anaerobic ciliates including Bothrostoma aporobustum nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Metopida)4
Checklist, diversity and biogeography of ciliates (Ciliophora) from Chile4
Molecular characterization of methionine aminopeptidase1 from Eimeria tenella4
Novel taxa of the centrohelid heliozoans (Pterocystida and Panacanthocystida) from agricultural soils4
Molecular phylogenetic analyses support the validity of Ceratiomyxa porioides (Amoebozoa, Eumycetozoa) at species level4
18S and ITS2 rRNA gene sequence-structure phylogeny of the Phaeophyceae (SAR, Stramenopiles) with special reference to Laminariales4
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two new Blepharisma species (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) from northeastern China4
A new microsporidian pathogen, Vairimorpha gastrophysae sp. nov., isolated from Gastrophysa viridula (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)4
A new centrohelid heliozoan, Pterocystis polycristalepis sp. nov., and taxonomic and phylogenetic concerns within Pterista (Haptista: Centroplasthelida)4
Transfer of the thecate amoebae Lecythium spinosum and Pamphagus armatus to Rhizaspis (Thecofilosea, Cercozoa, Rhizaria)3
Siliceous scales in the centrohelid heliozoan Raphidocystis contractilis facilitate settlement to the substratum3
Pacific marine gregarines (Apicomplexa) shed light on biogeographic speciation patterns and novel diversity among early apicomplexans3
Re-discovery and novel contributions to morphology and multigene phylogeny of Protospirella mazurica (Raabe, 1968) Aescht, 2001 (Ciliophora: Pleuronematida), an obligate symbiont of the river nerite T3
Life history of Apocarchesium arndti Norf &  Foissner, 2010 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) including recognition of a novel type of zooid3
Diophrys pauciciliata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida), a new marine spirotrich ciliate with highly static morphometrics3
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Two new species of the genus Leptomyxa (Goodey, 1915) – Leptomyxa botanica n. sp. and Leptomyxa monrepos n. sp. from the soil habitats of Northwestern Russia3
Species-specific predation determines the feeding impacts of six soil protist species on bacterial and eukaryotic prey3
Carterina labinea sp. nov. – A new alien foraminifer from the Southeastern Mediterranean shelf3
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three Parasonderia species including a new species (Ciliophora, Plagiopylea)3
New data on the fine structure of Deuteramoeba mycophaga CCAP 1586/1 (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea)3
On Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865–1947): The good, the bad, and the ugly3
Silica-scaled heterotrophic protists: Rotosphaerida, Thaumatomonadida and Centroplasthelida in Arctic waters of Russia3
Use of E-64 cysteine protease inhibitor for the recombinant protein production in Tetrahymena thermophila3
Cafeteria in extreme environments: Investigations on C. burkhardae and three new species from the Atacama Desert and the deep ocean3
Report of the 2022 meeting of the German Society for Protozoology3
Minimal zoonotic risk of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis from frogs and reptiles3
Expansion of the cytochrome C oxidase subunit I database and description of four new lobose testate amoebae species (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida)3
Morphological and phylogenetic investigations shed light on evolutionary relationships of the enigmatic genus Copemetopus (Ciliophora, Alveolata), with the proposal of Copemetopus verae sp. nov.2
Typical and atypical cell division versus potential meiosis and sex in euglenids2
Morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a freshwater ciliate, Oxytricha multilineata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)2
Testate amoebae from the wetlands of the Phobjikha Valley of Bhutan, the Eastern Himalayas2
Ciliate diversity and growth rates in experimental recirculating aquaculture and aquaponics systems using microscopy2
Testate amoebae are informative bioindicators of critically high ammonia deposition on peatlands2
The saga of the false fossil foram Eozoon2
Phylogenomics corroborates morphology: New discussions on the systematics of Trichostomatia (Ciliophora, Litostomatea)2
Insertional mutagenesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: An effective strategy for the identification of new genes involved in the DNA damage response2
A new freshwater monothalamid (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the Pyrenees branching within a marine clade2
A comparative ultrastructural study on the nanoscale extrusomes of tintinnids (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and their phylogenetic significance2
The mitochondrial citrate synthase from Tetrahymena thermophila does not form an intermediate filament2
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Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding2
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Description of Conchophthirus sinanodontae n. sp. (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatia), a new endocommensal ciliate of the freshwater mussel Sinanodonta woodiana from Korea2
Phylogenetic and morphological diversity of free-living diplomonads2
Morphological and molecular diversity of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including two new species and a new genus, from SW Greenland2
Anaerocyclidiidae fam. nov. (Oligohymenophorea, Scuticociliatia): A newly recognized major lineage of anaerobic ciliates hosting prokaryotic symbionts2
First record of Grammatodinium (Dinophyceae) for the American Eastern Pacific coast: Morphological, molecular and ecological confirmation2
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species III. – Kalathoeca cupula (Leadbeater, 1972) gen. et comb. nov. (=Stephanoeca cupula (Leadbeater) Thomsen, 1988)2
PCNA's dual legacy in ciliates: Conserved replication scaffold and lineage-specific genome architect2
Novel cercozoan and heterolobosean protists from the rhizosphere and phyllosphere of two endemic cacti from the Atacama Desert2
Seasonal effects on Chlorella sorokiniana UCAM 001 growth and physiology in flat-plate photobioreactors in Morocco's arid climate2
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Novel potential functions of amoeboid cells in thraustochytrids revealed by Aurantiochytrium limacinum BL102
Bacterial communities and toxin profiles of Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae) from the Pacific island of Okinawa, Japan2
Identification and characterization of an ectophosphatase activity involved in Acanthamoeba castellanii adhesion to host cells2
Genome-wide identification and in-silico analysis of papain-family cysteine protease encoding genes in Tetrahymena thermophila2
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