supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32270558)。
Ciliates are eukaryotic unicellular organisms with complex morphology and developmental processes,including asexual and sexual processes.Conjugation is a form of sexual process that renews genetic materials.However,vi...
supported by the Third Xinjiang Scientific Expedition Program(2021xjkk0204,2021xjkk0604);Science&Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program(2022FY100400);Background Resources Survey in Shennongjia National Park(SNJNP2022008);Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation Biology of Shennongjia Snub-nosed Monkeys(SNJGKL2022008);Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine Biodiversity Conservation,Beibu Gulf University(2020KA05).
Ciliated microeukaryotes(ciliates)are distinguished by their cilia,which are rich in tubulin.We developed a method for tubulin staining in ciliate cells that involves using live-cell tubulin-staining dyes instead of a...
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32370488,42176163,31970398 and 31672251);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(Nos.2019216 and 2022211).
Coastal and estuarine protists are frequently exposed to salinity undulation.While the tolerance and stress responses of microalgae to salinity have been extensively studied,there have been scarce studies on the physi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32270539,31961123002);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004);the Researchers Supporting Project Number(RSP2023R10)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
Ciliated protists are highly differentiated unicellular eukaryotes that possess special sexual processes(conjugation and autogamy)that rely on their unique nuclear dimorphism,i.e.,the presence of both a germline micro...
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 Laoshan Laboratory(LSKJ202203201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32030015,41976086,32270558,32111530116);Young Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province(tsqn202103037);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141007);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2021M703037)。
Ciliated protists represent one of the most primitive and diverse lineages of eukaryotes,with nuclear dimorphism,a distinctive sexual process(conjugation),and extensive genome rearrangements.Among divergent ciliate li...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(project numbers:42276094,41976086);Researchers Supporting Project Number(project number:RSP2023R10)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.We are grateful to Prof.Weibo Song(OUC,China)and Dr.Brandon Kwee Boon Seah(Max Planck Institute for Biology,Tübingen,Germany)for their suggestions while drafting the manuscript.
Ciliates in the class Prostomatea play an important role in the global microbial loop due to their signifcant abundances and broad feeding strategies at the foundation of food webs.Despite their importance in ecosyste...
supported bygrants from the National KeyResearchandDevelopment Program of China(2020YFA0803200 and 2020YFA0509000).
Dear Editor,DNA N^(6)-methyladenine(6mA)modifi-cation,which was found in bacteria,archaea,viruses,and eukaryotes ranging from unicellular protists,fungi,and ciliates to multicellular plants and animals,has been propos...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970398,No.32270473,No.31772431);a grant from the NRF Korea funded by the Ministry of Education(2021R1I1A2048744)。
Ciliates of the heterotrich family Folliculinidae are widespread in various habitats and are distinguished by their transparent loricae of various shapes,conspicuous peristomial lobes,and dimorphic life cycles.They us...