F. Mahe

O Short-branch Microsporidia, Where Art Thou? Identifying diversity hotspots for future sampling

The paper identifies freshwater and terrestrial environments as diversity hotspots for short-branch Microsporidia to guide future sampling efforts.

African army ants at the forefront of virome surveillance in a remote tropical forest

This study uses army ants to sample the virome of a remote tropical forest, revealing a diverse array of viral sequences from multiple taxa.

Comparison of phylogenetic placements to pairwise alignments for taxonomic assignment of ciliate OTUs

This study compares taxonomic assignments of ciliate OTUs using pairwise alignment and phylogenetic placement methods, showing differences when OTUs have low similarity to reference databases.

Global observation of plankton communities from space

The paper uses satellite data and machine learning to predict global plankton community distributions with 67% accuracy, outperforming temperature and chlorophyll a alone.

Unveiling hidden eukaryotes: diversity of Endomyxa (Rhizaria) in coastal marine habitats

The paper investigates Endomyxa diversity in coastal marine habitats using targeted primers, revealing novel lineages and habitat-specific variations.

Seasonal temporal dynamics of marine protists communities in tidally mixed coastal waters

The paper analyzes seasonal changes in marine protist communities using long-term data from microscopy and metabarcoding, revealing seasonal patterns and environmental influences.

pr2-primers: an 18S rRNA primer database for protists

The paper develops a database of 179 primers and 76 primer pairs for 18S rRNA metabarcoding of protists, along with a web tool to evaluate their performance.

Plankton Planet: 'seatizen' oceanography to assess open ocean life at the planetary scale

Plankton Planet uses citizen science to collect global plankton biodiversity data via DNA barcodes, achieving comparable quality to Tara Oceans with a scalable, open-access approach.

Identifying potential hosts of short-branch Microsporidia

The paper uses network analysis of soil metabarcoding data to identify potential hosts of short-branch Microsporidia, finding significant co-occurrences with Apicomplexa, Cercozoa, Fungi, and some Metazoa.

The windblown: possible explanations for dinophyte DNA in forest soils

The paper analyzes environmental DNA metabarcoding data to show dinophyte DNA in forest soils likely comes from windblown aquatic species, not active terrestrial residents.

Evaluating geographic variation within molecular operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using network analyses in Scandinavian lakes

The paper evaluates geographic variation within molecular operational taxonomic units using network analyses on metabarcoding data from Scandinavian lakes and finds no assortative clustering or increased connectivity between neighboring lakes.

A user guide to environmental protistology: primers, metabarcoding, sequencing, and analyses

This paper provides a guide for studying protist diversity using molecular methods, focusing on metabarcoding and primer selection for ecological research.

Persistent patterns of high alpha and low beta diversity in tropical parasitic and free-living protists

The paper examines biogeographic patterns of soil protists in Neotropical rainforests, finding high alpha and low beta diversity for parasitic and free-living protists.

Yeasts Dominate Soil Fungal Communities In Three Lowland Neotropical Rainforests

The paper uses environmental metabarcoding to show that yeasts dominate fungal communities in three Neotropical rainforests, with implications for biogeographic patterns.

Meiotic Genes In Colpodean Ciliates Support Secretive Sexuality

The paper shows that colpodean ciliates have meiotic genes under functional constraint, suggesting they are sexual despite being thought asexual.

Soil Protists in Three Neotropical Rainforests are Hyperdiverse and Dominated by Parasites

The paper investigates protist diversity in Neotropical rainforest soils, finding them hyperdiverse and dominated by parasitic Apicomplexa, which may influence animal diversity.