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...
supported by the Laoshan Laboratory(Project No.LSKJ202203201);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project No.32000300,32030015);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Project No.ZR2022QC096);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(Project No.2022M711922);the Researchers Supporting Project(Project No.RSP 2025R7)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.
Aquaculture of red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii is an emerging farming industry in China.As shown recently,one of the most significant diseases affecting the red swamp crayfish is caused by overabundance of epib...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project number:32030015,32100404);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Project number:ZR2021QC045);the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia(Project number:RSP2024R7).
In the aquatic microbial food web,scuticociliates are diverse and predominant in almost all kinds of biotopes while extremely confused regarding their taxonomy and systematic relationships within the subclass Scuticoc...
funded by the Science&Technol-ogy Innovation Project of Laoshan Laboratory(No.LSKJ202203201);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.32030015,32370475);Researchers Supporting Project(No.RSP2024R10)King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia;Guangdong Province Youth Innovative Talent Project 2022(2022KQNCX107).
Ciliates in the subclass Hypotrichia have long been difficult to classify as they are one of the most polymorphic and highly differentiated groups,leading to their systematics remaining unresolved.Phylogenetic relatio...
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 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 Natu-ral Science Foundation of China(Project Nos.32030015,32100404,32000300,32070432);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(Project No.ZR2021QC045);the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia(Project No.RSP2024R7).
Species of the ciliate genera Myxophyllum and Conchophthirus are found as endocommensals of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks,respectively.So far,there have been few studies of these genera and morphological data fo...
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 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 ...
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...