OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Protist is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Vampyrellid Amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)	24
Parasitic Chytrids Upgrade and Convey Primary Produced Carbon During Inedible Algae Proliferation	20
Diplonemids – A Review on "New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block	17
Range-wide Phylogeography of a Nivicolous Protist Didymium nivicola Meyl. (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa): Striking Contrasts Between the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere	15
Erection of a New Genus and Species for the Pathogen of Hard Clams ‘Quahog Parasite Unknown’ (QPX): Mucochytrium quahogii gen. nov., sp. nov.	13
A Morpho-molecular Perspective on the Diversity and Evolution of Spumellaria (Radiolaria)	12
Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with Consideration of their Life-history	11
Prevalence and Subtype Distribution of Blastocystis in Tibetan Sheep in Qinghai Province, Northwestern China	10
Seasonal Patterns of Phytoplankton Taxon Richness in Lakes: Effects of Temperature, Turnover and Abundance	10
Multigene Phylogeny, Morphological Observation and Re-examination of the Literature Lead to the Description of the Phaeosacciophyceae Classis Nova and Four New Species of the Heterokontophyta SI Clade	10
Diatom Genus Hyalosira (Rhabdonematales emend.) and Resolution of its Polyphyly in Grammatophoraceae and Rhabdonemataceae with a New Genus, Placosira, and Five New Hyalosira Species	10
Phylogenetic Position of Three Well-known Ciliates from the Controversial Order Loxocephalida Jankowski, 1980 (Scuticociliatia, Oligohymenophorea) and Urozona buetschlii (Schewiakoff, 1889) with Impro	10
Ecology, Morphology, Phylogeny and Taxonomic Revision of Giant Radiolarians, Orodaria ord. nov. (Radiolaria; Rhizaria; SAR)	10
What Drives the Assembly of Plant-associated Protist Microbiomes? Investigating the Effects of Crop Species, Soil Type and Bacterial Microbiomes	9
Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Three Species of Dysteria (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) Including the Description of Dysteria ozakii nom. nov.	9
Integrative Studies on Three Epibiotic Epistylis Species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) in Lake Weishan Wetland, Northern China, Including the Establishment of a New Species	9
The Molecular Diversity of Phagotrophic Euglenids Examined Using Single-cell Methods	9
Opinion: Iron, Climate Change and the ‘Brain Eating Amoeba’ Naegleria fowleri	9
Free-living Trichomonads are Unexpectedly Diverse	8
Diversity and Phylogenetic Position of Bothrostoma Stokes, 1887 (Ciliophora: Metopida), with Description of Four New Species	8
A Needle in the Haystack – Mapping Sequences to Morphology Exemplified by the Loricate Choanoflagellate Enibas thessalia sp. nov. (Acanthoecida, Acanthoecidae)	7
Five Groups in the Genus Allovahlkampfia and the Description of the New Species Vahlkampfia bulbosis n.sp.	7
Biomineralization Capacities of Chlorodendrophyceae: Correlation Between Chloroplast Morphology and the Distribution of Micropearls in the Cell	7
Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution	7
Development of the Myzozoan Aquatic Parasite Perkinsus marinus as A Versatile Experimental Genetic Model Organism	6

A High Throughput Viability Screening Method for the Marine Ectoparasite Neoparamoeba perurans	6
The Draft Genome of the Centric Diatom Conticribra weissflogii (Coscinodiscophyceae, Ochrophyta)	6
The Effect of pH and Salinity on the Toxicity and Growth of the Golden Alga, Prymnesium parvum	6
First Molecular Characterization of the Elusive Marine Protist Meteora sporadica	6
Haemogregarines of the Genera Haemogregarina, Hemolivia, and Hepatozoon Infecting Vietnamese Freshwater Turtles, with Additional Notes on Primer Specificity and Primer-template Mismatches Affecting Di	6
Morphology and Ecology of Two New Amoebae, Isolated From a Thalassohaline Lake, Dziani Dzaha	6
Molecular Epidemiology and Characterization of Theileria in Goats	5
Hemiselmis aquamarina sp. nov. (Cryptomonadales, Cryptophyceae), A Cryptophyte with A Novel Phycobiliprotein Type (Cr-PC 564)	5
On the Biology, Diversity and Evolution of Nucleariid Amoebae (Amorphea, Obazoa, Opisthokonta1	4
Effects of Glacial Flour on Marine Micro-plankton: Evidences from Natural Communities of Greenlandic Fjords and Experimental Studies	4
Morphogenesis of an anaerobic ciliate Heterometopus palaeformis (Kahl, 1927) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Armophorea) with notes on its morphological and molecular characterization	4
New Approach to the Ultrastructure of the Capillitium in the Order Trichiales (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa) and its Phylogenetic Implications	4
Molecular Phylogenetic Position of Microjoenia (Parabasalia: Spirotrichonymphea) from Reticulitermes and Hodotermopsis Termite Hosts	4
Dictyostelid Cellular Slime Molds from the Russian Far East	4
Improved Methods for Bulk Cultivation and Fixation of Loxodes Ciliates for Fluorescence Microscopy	3
Significance of the Nudiform and Tectiform Modes of Silica Deposition, Lorica Assembly and Cell Division in Choanoflagellates as Exemplified by Stephanoeca diplocostata and Enibas spp.	3
When you Like Other Algae: Adglutina synurophila gen. et sp. nov. (Moewusinia, Chlorophyceae), a Clingy Green Microalga Associated with Synura Colonies	3
Macronuclear Plasticity in Two South American Populations of Spirostomum (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) Warns About its Use for Species Classification: Revision and New Insights	3
Effects of Copper and the Insecticide Cypermethrin on a Soil Ciliate (Protozoa: Ciliophora) Community	3
Evidence for Host Jumping and Diversification of Marine Cephaloidophorid Gregarines (Apicomplexa) Between Two Distantly Related Animals, viz., Crustaceans and Salps	3
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of pleurostomatid ciliates from China with a description of two new species	3
Re-evaluating Loricate Choanoflagellate Phylogenetics: Molecular Evidence Points to the Paraphyly of Tectiform Species	3
DNA barcodes reliably differentiate between nivicolous species of Diderma (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa) and reveal regional differences within Eurasia	3
The Extraordinarily Rare Ciliate Legendrea loyezae Fauré-Fremiet, 1908 (Haptoria, Ciliophora)	3
Morphology, Life Cycle, and SSU rDNA-based Phylogeny of Two Folliculinid Ciliates (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea, Folliculinidae) Collected from Subtropical Coastal Wetlands of China	3
A three-genome ultraconserved element phylogeny of cryptophytes	3
New Angled Twin–layer Porous Substrate Photobioreactors for Cultivation of Nannochloropsis oculata	3
Testate Amoebae in Historical parks of Potsdam, Germany	2
High Environmentally Induced Plasticity in Spore Size and Numbers of Nuclei per Spore in Physarum albescens (Myxomycetes)	2
Examining the Relationship Between the Testate Amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) and its Associated Intracellular Microalgae Using Molecular and Microscopic Methods	2
Taxonomy of a New Parasitic Euglenid, Euglenaformis parasitica sp. nov. (Euglenales, Euglenaceae) in Ostracods and Rhabdocoels	2
The Draft Genome of Coelastrum proboscideum (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta)	2
Rimoportula Distribution, Heterovalvy and Heteropolarity in Hyalosira (Bacillariophyta: Rhabdonematales), with Revision of H. hesperia and Two New Species	2
Microalga–bacteria Community with High Level Carbon Dioxide Acclimation and Nitrogen-fixing Ability	2
The Morphology, Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogeny of a New Soil-Dwelling Kinetoplastid Avlakibodo gracilis gen. et sp. nov. (Neobodonida; Kinetoplastea)	2
External pH Variations Modify Proliferation, Erythrophagocytosis, Cytoskeleton Remodeling, and Cell Morphology of Entamoeba histolytica Trophozoites	2
Unravelling the Phylogeny of a Common Intestinal Protist: Intrageneric Diversity of Endolimax	2
Sterol Composition of the Peridinioid Dinoflagellate Zooxanthella nutricula, A Symbiont of Polycystine Radiolarians	2
Genomic architecture constrains macromolecular allocation in dinoflagellates	2
Protist Diversity Responses to Experimental N Deposition in Biological Crusts of a Semiarid Mediterranean Ecosystem	2
Ciliates from the faeces of the free-ranging dromedary from Oman: Morphology and molecular phylogeny	1
Discovery of a new photosynthetic euglenoid in Poland: Euglena mazurica sp. nov. (Euglenales, Euglenaceae)	1
Ultrastructure of Apocolpodidium etoschense (Ciliophora) and its Systematics Enlightenment for the Class Nassophorea	1
On Saville-Kent's “a Manual of the infusoria”	1
On the Protistan Bookplate of Charles Atwood Kofoid	1
Diverse eukaryotic phytoplankton from around the Marquesas Islands documented by combined microscopy and molecular techniques	1
Morphology, Morphogenesis and Molecular Phylogeny of a New Soil Ciliate, Holostichides eastensis nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)	1
A Forgotten Second Author: Arthur S. Campbell (1899-1972), Protistologist	1
Obituary: Thomas Cavalier-Smith (October 21, 1942-March 19, 2021)	1
Re-visiting the ridiculed rival of Leeuwenhoek: Louis Joblot (1645–1723)	1

Characterization and Transformation of reg Cluster Genes in Volvox powersii Enable Investigation of Convergent Evolution of Cellular Differentiation in Volvox	1
The biomolecules of Euglena gracilis: Harnessing biology for natural solutions to future problems	1
Sterol Composition of the Peridinin-Containing Dinoflagellate Gertia stigmatica, a Member of the Kareniaceae without a Canonical Haptophyte-Derived Plastid	1
Meeting Report: Euglenids in the Age of Symbiogenesis: Origins, Innovations, and Prospects, November 8–11, 2021	1
A Model of F-actin Organization in Granuloreticulopodia in Foraminifera: Morphogenetic and Evolutionary Implications from Novel Fluorescent and Polarised Light Observations	1
Boosting algicidal efficiency of Alteromonas sp. FDHY-CJ against Skeletonema costatum through fermentation optimization	1
Description of an Enigmatic Alveolate, Platyproteum noduliferae n. sp., and Reconstruction of its Flagellar Apparatus	1
Janine Beisson, Pioneer of Cytoplasmic Heredity (June 9, 1931, Saïda – August 30, 2020, Megève)	1