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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean	44
Miliolidium n. gen, a New Symbiodiniacean Genus Whose Members Associate with Soritid Foraminifera or Are Free‐Living	37
Dense granule biogenesis, secretion, and function in Toxoplasma gondii	30
Ecology of planktonic ciliates in a changing world: Concepts, methods, and challenges	29
The increasing importance of Vermamoebavermiformis	27
Division of BlastocystisST10 into three new subtypes: ST42‐ST44	27
Identification and validation of novel Blastocystis subtype ST41 in a Colombian patient undergoing colorectal cancer screening	22
Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Roads traveled and those still to be taken	20
Anaerobic ciliates as a model group for studying symbioses in oxygen‐depleted environments	20
Absolute quantification of chromosome copy numbers in the polyploid macronucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila at the single‐cell level	18
The Toxoplasma plant‐like vacuolar compartment (PLVAC)	17
Two Anaerobic Ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea) from China: Morphology and SSU rDNA Sequence, with Report of a New Species, Metopus paravestitus nov. spec	17
Functional Ecology of Two Contrasting Freshwater Ciliated Protists in Relation to Temperature	17
Revised Taxonomy and Expanded Biodiversity of the Phytomyxea (Rhizaria, Endomyxa)	16
Ultrastructural Changes of the Mitochondrion During the Life Cycle of Trypanosomabrucei	15
Macronuclear development in ciliates, with a focus on nuclear architecture	12
A new microsporidian parasite, Ordospora pajunii sp. nov (Ordosporidae), of Daphnia longispina highlights the value of genomic data for delineating species boundaries	12
Ion channels of cilia: Paramecium as a model	12
Mitochondrial adaptations throughout the Trypanosoma brucei life cycle	12
Taxonomy of the Apicomplexan Symbionts of Coral, including Corallicolida ord. nov., Reassignment of the Genus Gemmocystis, and Description of New Species Corallicolaaquarius gen.	12
Microeukaryotic Communities Associated With the Seagrass Zostera marina Are Spatially Structured	11
Biogenesis and metabolic homeostasis of trypanosomatid glycosomes: New insights and new questions	11
Giardia intestinalis and its endomembrane system*	11
Parasite powerhouse: A review of the Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrion	10
The old and the new about the contractile vacuole of Trypanosoma cruzi	10

The importance of type species and their correct identification: A key example from tintinnid ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha)	10
The hydrogenosome of Trichomonas vaginalis	10
Molecular Identification of Cryptosporidium spp., Enterocytozoonbieneusi, and Giardiaduodenalis in Captive Pet Birds in Henan Province, Central China	10
The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils	9
A Functional Aqp1 Gene Product Localizes on The Contractile Vacuole Complex in Parameciummultimicronucleatum	9
Using average nucleotide identity (ANI) to evaluate microsporidia species boundaries based on their genetic relatedness	9
Mechanisms for establishing primary and secondary endosymbiosis in Paramecium	9
New insights into the role of acidocalcisomes in trypanosomatids	9
Dynamics of cell death across growth stages and the diel cycle in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis	9
Anterior–posterior pattern formation in ciliates	9
Roles of the apicoplast across the life cycles of rodent and human malaria parasites	8
Paramecium epigenetics in development and proliferation	8
New contributions to the Cyrtophoria ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora): Establishment of new taxa and phylogenetic analyses using two ribosomal genes	8
Ciliate cortical organization and dynamics for cell motility: Comparing ciliates and vertebrates	8
Protozoan phagotrophy from predators to parasites: An overview of the enigmatic cytostome‐cytopharynx complex of Trypanosoma cruzi	7
A comparative ultrastructural study of tintinnid loricae (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and a hypothesis on their evolution	7
Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)	7
Pontisma blauvikense sp. nov. the first member of the early‐diverging oomycete genus Pontisma parasitizing brown algae	6
Photosynthetic Sponge‐associated Eukaryotes in the Aegean Sea: A Culture‐dependent Approach	6
Through the eDNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions	6
Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep‐branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists	6
Seasonal monitoring of Cryptosporidium species and their genetic diversity in neonatal calves on two large‐scale farms in Xinjiang, China	6
Bioactive molecules from ciliates: Structure, activity, and applicative potential	6
Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa	6
The mitosome of the anaerobic parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica: A peculiar and minimalist mitochondrion‐related organelle	6
Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular characterization of Castula specialis sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Armophorea, Metopida)	6
Silica‐scaled heterotrophic protists Rotosphaerida, Thaumatomonadida, and Centroplasthelida in the large continuous ecosystem connecting Lake Baikal to the Kara Sea	6
Cell wall proteomic analysis of the cnidarian photosymbionts Breviolum minutum and Cladocopium goreaui	5
Biogeography, autecology, and phylogeny of Percolomonads based on newly described species	5
Txikispora philomaios n. sp., n. g., a micro‐eukaryotic pathogen of amphipods, reveals parasitism and hidden diversity in Class Filasterea	5
Morphology and phylogeny of two anaerobic freshwater ciliates: Brachonella comma sp. nov. and the widely distributed but little‐known caenomorphid, Ludio parvulus Penard, 1922	5
Lynniagrapsolytican. gen, n. sp. (Ciliophora: Apostomatida: Colliniidae), a Deadly Blood Parasite of Crabs with a Novel Pseudocytopharynx	5
Taxonomy and phylogeny of the freshwater tintinnid Tintinnopsis tubuformis Chiang, 1956 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichea) and a proposed synonymization of T. longa nom. corr. Chiang, 1956	5
Physiological Responses of Mesodiniummajor to Irradiance, Prey Concentration and Prey Starvation	5
18S rDNA sequence–structure phylogeny of the Euglenophyceae (Euglenozoa, Euglenida)	5
The function of the feeding groove of ‘typical excavate’ flagellates	5
Characterization of Pre‐mRNA Splicing and Spliceosomal Machinery in Porphyridiumpurpureum and Evolutionary Implications for Red Algae	5
Vegetative cell fusion and a new stage in the life cycle of the Aphelida (Opisthosporidia)	5
Putative Meiotic Toolkit in the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum cordatum: Additional Evidence for Sexual Process from Transcriptome	5
The evolution of pre‐mRNA splicing and its machinery revealed by reduced extremophilic red algae	5
Rubble fields shape planktonic protist communities in Indonesia at a local scale	5
Molecular evolutionary analysis of the SM and SNARE vesicle fusion machinery in ciliates shows concurrent expansions in late secretory machinery	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
Further insight into the genetic diversity of Entamoeba coli and Entamoeba hartmanni	5
Podomonas kaiyoae n. sp., a novel apusomonad growing axenically	4
First molecular characterization of Blastocystis subtypes from domestic animals (sheep and cattle) and their animal‐keepers in Ilam, western Iran: A zoonotic concern	4
Expression and Identification of a Novel Spore Wall Protein in Microsporidian Nosema bombycis	4
Characterization of Cystathionine β‐Synthase TtCbs1 and Cysteine Synthase TtCsa1 Involved in Cysteine Biosynthesis in Tetrahymenathermophila	4
Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (	4
Morphology, Morphogenesis and Phylogenetic Position of the Soil Hypotrichous Ciliate, Parabistichelladieckmanni (Foissner, 1998) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with Notes on t	4

Insights into the Morphology of Haplozoan Parasites (Dinoflagellata) using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy	4
Molecular prevalence and subtypes distribution of Blastocystis sp. among outpatients and inpatients in north and south areas of Henan Province, China	4
A novel 2A‐peptide‐containing plasmid to generate stable Perkinsusmarinus cells expressing organelle‐targeted genes	4
Insights into the systematics of the family Ophryoscolecidae (Ciliophora, Entodiniomorphida)	4
Studies on the cyst stage of Naegleria fowleri in vivo and in vitro	4
Phylogenetic identification of symbiotic protists of five ChineseReticulitermesspecies indicates a cospeciation of gut microfauna with host termites	4
Phylogenomics of novel ploeotid taxa contribute to the backbone of the euglenid tree	4
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Apical Membrane Antigen 3 in Eimeria tenella	4
Abundant Chitinous Structures in Chilostomella (Foraminifera, Rhizaria) and Their Potential Functions	4
The long‐time orphan protist Meringosphaeramediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a centrohelid heliozoan	4
Saccharomycomorphapsychra n. g., n. sp., a Novel Member of Glissmonadida (Cercozoa) Isolated from Arctic and Antarctica	4