financially supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.XDA24020104,XDA28110100,XDA28020203);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Nos.2022YFD1500203,2022YFD1500401);the China Agriculture Research System(Grant Nos.CARS-03,CARS-52);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42177332);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2023325).
Protists are essential components of the rhizosphere microbiome,which is crucial for plant growth,but little is known about the relationship between plant growth and rhizosphere protists under salinity stress.Here we ...
supported by the Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau(Grant No.2021S013);Agricultural Science and Technology Project of the Xiangshan Science and Technology Bureau(Grant No.2022C1018).
Loquat orchard location was the main driver of microbial communities and loquat fruit quality.The average fruit weight was correlated with theɑ-andβ-diversity of bacteria and protists.Soil bacterial and protistan co...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42377288,32201528);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(No.2021J05040).
Widespread forest fires pose significant challenges to the diverse communities of soil-dwelling organisms and the multiple ecosystem functions they support.However,whether the biodiversity and interactions of various ...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(Nos.2023-JC-QN-0214,2023JC-QN-0185);the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(No.2023BSHEDZZ199);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.GK202207019)。
Hypotrichs are one of the highly differentiated ciliated lineages which play important roles in ecological, environmental,evolutionary and basic biological studies. In the present study, we investigated the living cha...
funded by the startup grants from Wenzhou Institute,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(WIUCASQD2019002,WIUCASQD2023029,WIUCAS2022020);the“Pioneer”and“Leading Goose”R&D Program of Zhejiang(2023C04043);National Key Research Project of MOST(SQ2023YFA1700082).
In a recent publication in Cell,1 Elias R.Gerrick and colleagues identified novel commensal parabasalid protists(i.e.T.casperi,Parabasalia_sp_1653)with distinct metabolic traits,including diverse succinate excretion a...
funded by the Laoshan Laboratory(No.LSKJ202203202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270539,31922013,31961123002);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);Royal Society/NSFC International Exchanges Cost Share Project(IEC\NSFC\201024);National Institutes of Health(P40OD010964);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004).
Genomes are incredibly dynamic within diverse eukaryotes and programmed genome rearrangements(PGR)play important roles in generating genomic diversity.However,genomes and chromosomes in metazoans are usually large in ...
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project Nos.2030015,32270512);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20220268);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(GK202207014);a National Institutes of Health grant No.P40OD010964 subaward to NAS.The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the ofcial views of the National Institutes of Health.Many thanks are given to Prof.Weibo Song(Ocean University of China[OUC])for his help during drafting the manuscript.We thank Ruitao Gong(OUC)for helping with species identifcation,DNA,and RNA extraction.We acknowledge the computing resources provided on the IEMB-1,a high-performance computing cluster operated by the Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity,OUC.
One of the most diverse clades of ciliated protozoa,the class Spirotrichea,displays a series of unique characters in terms of eukaryotic macronuclear(MAC)genome,including high fragmentation that produces nanochromosom...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number 32070406);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant Number 2022A1515010773);the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou(Grant Number 202102080168).
Adaptations of ciliates to hypoxic environments have arisen independently several times.Studies on mitochondrion-related organelle(MRO)metabolisms from distinct anaerobic ciliate groups provide evidence for understand...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32070418 to S.B.);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(Grant No.2019QZKK0304 to W.M.);the High-Level Talent Training Program for postgraduate of Tibet University(Grant No.2019-GSP-S049 to P.Z.).
Protists,which include eukaryotic algae and protozoa,are crucially important for biogeochemical cycling and the aquatic food web but are sensitive to environmental fluctuations.Despite investigations in the 1970s,prot...
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)to Asiloglu R(Grant No.JP22K14804).
Biochar applications have an enormous impact on the soil microbial community and functionality.However,the majority of the knowledge on biochar-microbe interaction derives almost exclusively from bacterial and fungal ...