A. G. B. Simpson

This study investigates the foraging mechanisms of excavate flagellates to infer their functional ecology and potential relevance to early eukaryotes.

The paper describes Meteora sporadica, a protist with unique morphology, and shows its close phylogenetic relationship to Hemimastigophora through genomic analysis.

This study identifies lytic enzymes and chitin-related factors in Orciraptor agilis that facilitate cell wall perforation during protoplast feeding.

This study identifies a free-living protist, Carpediemonas membranifera, that lacks canonical eukaryotic DNA replication and segregation systems, suggesting novel mechanisms for these processes.

This study determines the phylogenetic position of barthelonids and reveals their mitochondrion-related organelles lack ATP-generating capacity.

The paper analyzes 18S rRNA gene sequences from seven Percolomonas cosmopolitus-like strains from diverse salinities, revealing cryptic species and ecological specialization.

The paper uses phylogenomic analysis to place orphan protist lineages into a novel eukaryotic super-group, CRuMs, and clarifies their relationship to Amorphea.