supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(project number:41976086);the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia(Project No.RSP2022R7).
Anaerobic protists in general,and ciliates in particular,are important components of anoxic or hypoxic environments,however,their diversity remains underestimated.Sonderia is a poorly studied genus that is distributed...
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 Natural Science Foundation of China(project numbers:32030015,32100404,32111530116,41976086);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(project number:ZR2021QC045);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant(project number:2020M672141);the Researchers Supporting Project(project number:RSP2022R7)of the King Saud University,Saudi Arabia.
The ciliate genus Pleuronema comprises approximately 30 nominal species and has been reported in freshwater,brackish water,and marine habitats.Nevertheless,recent studies have indicated that there might be a large und...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41576134)
The morphology and phylogeny of two little-known species, Loxodes kahli Dragesco & Njiné, 1971 and L. rostrum Müller, 1786, isolated from freshwater muddy sediments in China, were investigated based on live features...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30770238)
We examined the structure and spatial organization of ciliature base-associated microtubules (BAM) in three hypotrichous ciliates (Stylonychia mytilus, Pseudourostyla cristata, Euplotes woodruffi) in fluorescence ...