Phylogenomic placement and morphological description of a novel phagotrophic euglenid from Hawaii: Hokulea waialensis n. gen. et sp.
Alfredo Rodriguez Ruiz, Maia V. Palka, Gordon Lax, Dagmar Jírsová, Gianluca Fuggiti, Yu-Ping Poh, Brian S. Leander, Jeremy G. Wideman
The paper describes a new euglenid species, Hokulea waialensis, and places it phylogenomically within the ploeotid group using single-cell sequencing and phylogenetic analysis.
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology · Feb 26, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology