supported by the Science&Technology Innovation Project of Laoshan Laboratory(LSKJ202203202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31922013,32270539);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004);the Researchers Supporting Project(RSP2024R7)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
Sexual reproduction first appeared in unicellular protists and has continued to be an essential biological process in almost all eukaryotes.Ciliated protists, which contain both germline and somatic genomes within a s...
The Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong under contract No.2021A1515011384。
Marine ciliates play important roles not only in linking the microbial loop to the classic pelagic and benthic food chains but also in regenerating nutrients,yet how dietary nutrient imbalance impacts their nutrient r...
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(Nos.32030015,32111530116);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(No.2021M701993);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.GK202207019)。
The freshwater species,Euplotes mazeii n.sp.,and the marine species,E.balteatus(Dujardin,1841)Diesing,1850 were collected from China and investigated based on their living morphology,ciliary pattern,and small subunit ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32030015,31922013 and 31961123002);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004);the Researchers Supporting Project(RSP-2022R7)of the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia.
Ciliated protists are one of the most diverse and highly differentiated group among unicellular organisms.Doublets occur in ciliates when two cells fuse into a single individual.Doublets contain two major cellular com...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31672308 and 40206021)
This study investigated the cytotoxicity of gemcitabine using the marine ciliate Euplotes vannus as the test organism.The median lethal concentrations(LC50 values)were determined using acute toxicity tests within an e...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41006086,31272285);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY13C040005);the King Saud University,Deanship of Scientific Research,Research Group Project(No.RGP-VPP-083);the K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University
The characteristics and infraciliature of a new euplotid ciliate, Euplotes qingdaoensis n. sp., discovered from the coastal waters of Jiaozhou Bay, northern China, were studied using live observation and silver impreg...