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...