OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High‐Throughput Metabarcoding	73
Miliolidium n. gen, a New Symbiodiniacean Genus Whose Members Associate with Soritid Foraminifera or Are Free‐Living	31
The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean	25
Dense granule biogenesis, secretion, and function in Toxoplasma gondii	23
The increasing importance of Vermamoebavermiformis	19
The Complete Protist Symbiont Communities of Coptotermes formosanus and Coptotermes gestroi: Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Five New Species	19
Ecology of planktonic ciliates in a changing world: Concepts, methods, and challenges	17
Absolute quantification of chromosome copy numbers in the polyploid macronucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila at the single‐cell level	17
Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Roads traveled and those still to be taken	16
Revised Taxonomy and Expanded Biodiversity of the Phytomyxea (Rhizaria, Endomyxa)	16
Ultrastructural Changes of the Mitochondrion During the Life Cycle of Trypanosomabrucei	15
Anaerobic ciliates as a model group for studying symbioses in oxygen‐depleted environments	15
Two Anaerobic Ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea) from China: Morphology and SSU rDNA Sequence, with Report of a New Species, Metopus paravestitus nov. spec	15
Functional Ecology of Two Contrasting Freshwater Ciliated Protists in Relation to Temperature	14
Ion channels of cilia: Paramecium as a model	11
Does Formation of Multicellular Colonies by Choanoflagellates Affect Their Susceptibility to Capture by Passive Protozoan Predators?	11
The Toxoplasma plant‐like vacuolar compartment (PLVAC)	11
Mitochondrial adaptations throughout the Trypanosoma brucei life cycle	11
Biogenesis and metabolic homeostasis of trypanosomatid glycosomes: New insights and new questions	11
A Widely Distributed Thraustochytrid Parasite of Diatoms Isolated from the Arctic Represents a gen. and sp. nov.	10
Anterior–posterior pattern formation in ciliates	9
Microeukaryotic Communities Associated With the Seagrass Zostera marina Are Spatially Structured	9
Taxonomy of the Apicomplexan Symbionts of Coral, including Corallicolida ord. nov., Reassignment of the Genus Gemmocystis, and Description of New Species Corallicolaaquarius gen.	9
A Functional Aqp1 Gene Product Localizes on The Contractile Vacuole Complex in Parameciummultimicronucleatum	9
New insights into the role of acidocalcisomes in trypanosomatids	9

Molecular Identification of Cryptosporidium spp., Enterocytozoonbieneusi, and Giardiaduodenalis in Captive Pet Birds in Henan Province, Central China	9
High Diversity of Testate Amoebae (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida) Detected by HTS Analyses in a New England Fen using Newly Designed Taxon‐specific Primers	9
The importance of type species and their correct identification: A key example from tintinnid ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha)	8
Identification and validation of novel Blastocystis subtype ST41 in a Colombian patient undergoing colorectal cancer screening	8
Division of BlastocystisST10 into three new subtypes: ST42‐ST44	8
Molecular characterization of serine/threonine protein phosphatase of Eimeria tenella	8
Dynamics of cell death across growth stages and the diel cycle in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis	8
The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils	8
The old and the new about the contractile vacuole of Trypanosoma cruzi	8
Paramecium epigenetics in development and proliferation	7
A new microsporidian parasite, Ordospora pajunii sp. nov (Ordosporidae), of Daphnia longispina highlights the value of genomic data for delineating species boundaries	7
First Report of Blastocystis Infection in Pigs from Large Farms in Xinjiang, China	7
The mitosome of the anaerobic parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica: A peculiar and minimalist mitochondrion‐related organelle	6
Ciliate cortical organization and dynamics for cell motility: Comparing ciliates and vertebrates	6
The hydrogenosome of Trichomonas vaginalis	6
Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)	6
An Integrative Investigation of Parabistichella variabilis (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) Including Its General Morphology, Ultrastructure, Ontogenesis, and Molecular Phylogeny	6
Parasite powerhouse: A review of the Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrion	6
Using average nucleotide identity (ANI) to evaluate microsporidia species boundaries based on their genetic relatedness	5
Molecular evolutionary analysis of the SM and SNARE vesicle fusion machinery in ciliates shows concurrent expansions in late secretory machinery	5
Macronuclear development in ciliates, with a focus on nuclear architecture	5
Redescription of Rigidohymena inquieta (Stokes, 1887) Berger, 2011 as Metahymena inquieta gen. nov., comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) Based on Morphology, Morphogenesis, and Molecular	5
Photosynthetic Sponge‐associated Eukaryotes in the Aegean Sea: A Culture‐dependent Approach	5
A comparative ultrastructural study of tintinnid loricae (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and a hypothesis on their evolution	5
Cell wall proteomic analysis of the cnidarian photosymbionts Breviolum minutum and Cladocopium goreaui	5
Roles of the apicoplast across the life cycles of rodent and human malaria parasites	5
Seasonal monitoring of Cryptosporidium species and their genetic diversity in neonatal calves on two large‐scale farms in Xinjiang, China	5
New contributions to the Cyrtophoria ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora): Establishment of new taxa and phylogenetic analyses using two ribosomal genes	5
New contribution to the peritrichous genus Ophrydium (Protista, Ciliophora) with notes on the morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of a well‐known species Ophrydium crassicaule Penard, 19	5
Physiological Responses of Mesodiniummajor to Irradiance, Prey Concentration and Prey Starvation	5
Mechanisms for establishing primary and secondary endosymbiosis in Paramecium	5
Characterization of Pre‐mRNA Splicing and Spliceosomal Machinery in Porphyridiumpurpureum and Evolutionary Implications for Red Algae	5
Silica‐scaled heterotrophic protists Rotosphaerida, Thaumatomonadida, and Centroplasthelida in the large continuous ecosystem connecting Lake Baikal to the Kara Sea	5
Giardia intestinalis and its endomembrane system*	5
Bioactive molecules from ciliates: Structure, activity, and applicative potential	4
Microsporidia Can Acquire Lamin‐like Intermediate Filaments and Cell Adhesion Catenin‐cadherin Complexes from the Host (?)	4
Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep‐branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists	4
The evolution of pre‐mRNA splicing and its machinery revealed by reduced extremophilic red algae	4
Pontisma blauvikense sp. nov. the first member of the early‐diverging oomycete genus Pontisma parasitizing brown algae	4
Txikispora philomaios n. sp., n. g., a micro‐eukaryotic pathogen of amphipods, reveals parasitism and hidden diversity in Class Filasterea	4
Roles of Adenylate Cyclases in Ciliary Responses of Paramecium to Mechanical Stimulation	4
Through the eDNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions	4
Putative Meiotic Toolkit in the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum cordatum: Additional Evidence for Sexual Process from Transcriptome	4
The Ability of Tetrahymena utriculariae (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) to Colonize Traps of Different Species of Aquatic Carnivorous Utricularia	4
The long‐time orphan protist Meringosphaeramediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a centrohelid heliozoan	4
Morphology and phylogeny of two anaerobic freshwater ciliates: Brachonella comma sp. nov. and the widely distributed but little‐known caenomorphid, Ludio parvulus Penard, 1922	4
Morphology, Morphogenesis and Phylogenetic Position of the Soil Hypotrichous Ciliate, Parabistichelladieckmanni (Foissner, 1998) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with Notes on t	4
Further insight into the genetic diversity of Entamoeba coli and Entamoeba hartmanni	4
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Apical Membrane Antigen 3 in Eimeria tenella	4
Characterization of Cystathionine β‐Synthase TtCbs1 and Cysteine Synthase TtCsa1 Involved in Cysteine Biosynthesis in Tetrahymenathermophila	4

A novel 2A‐peptide‐containing plasmid to generate stable Perkinsusmarinus cells expressing organelle‐targeted genes	4
Protozoan phagotrophy from predators to parasites: An overview of the enigmatic cytostome‐cytopharynx complex of Trypanosoma cruzi	4