Parasites have coexisted with humans throughout history,forming either symbiotic relationships or causing significant morbidity and mortality.The liver is particularly vulnerable to parasitic infections,which can resi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32030015,32170533);Researchers Supporting Project Number(RSP2024R10)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia。
Pleurostomatid ciliates,as a highly diverse and widely distributed unicellular eukaryote group,play a crucial role in the cycling of nutrients and energy in microbial food webs.However,research on pleurostomatids rema...
The protozoan parasites Entamoeba histolytica and Blastocystis hominis are responsible for causing human amebiasis and hominis infections,respectively.These infections are highly prevalent and are often linked to wate...
supported by the projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42076113,42176145);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.20720200106,20720200109).
The inland saltwater lakes harbor exceptional biodiversity.Here,two new species of solitary sessile peritrich ciliates were isolated from Qinghai Lake,the largest inland saltwater lake in China.Their morphology,ciliat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42188102,41861144018);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(Grant No.2023J05017);the Marine Economic Development Special Fund Project of Fujian Province of China(Grant No.FJHJF-L-2022-11);supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2021M691863);supported by the Innovation Team Project of Universities in Guangdong Province(Grant No.2023KCXTD028);supported by the Ph.D.Fellowship of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science at Xiamen University。
Prokaryotes play a fundamental role in global ocean biogeochemical cycles.However,how the abundance and metabolic activity of ecologically distinct subgroups(i.e.,high nucleic acid(HNA)and low nucleic acid(LNA)cells),...
Today, the green pigeon (Treron calvus, TEMMINCK, 1811) holds an in-creasingly important place in the dietary habits of the populations of south-east of C?te d’Ivoire, especially those of Grand-Bassam. To provide foo...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project numbers:32030015,32000300);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Project number:ZR2021QC104,ZR2022QC096);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Project numbers:2021M701993,2022M711922);the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia(Project number RSP2023R10).We sincerely thank the“Weishan Wetland Station”for institutional support.
During a study on the diversity of ciliated protists in Lake Weishan Wetland,the largest wetland in northern China,four epibiotic sessilid peritrichs were isolated from aquatic host animals.Two of them,i.e.,Epistylis ...
supported by the Laoshan Laboratory(No.LSKJ202203201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(project numbers:32030015,32000300,31961123002);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(project number:2021M703037,2022M711922);the Researchers Supporting Project(Project number RSP2022R10)。
Ciliates are core components of the structure of and function of aquatic microbial food webs.They play an essential role in the energy flow and material circulation within aquatic ecosystems.However,studies on the tax...
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...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32030015,32070428;31900319);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFD0900701);the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia(No.RSP2022R7).
Ciliates are unique single-celled organisms that play important roles in ecological,environmental,evolutionary,and ontogenetic research.In the present study,phylogenetic analyses based on 18S rRNA gene sequence data r...