Daniel J. Richter

The paper investigates the relationship between mitochondrial and non-coding nuclear DNA content in kinetoplastids, finding an inverse correlation that suggests co-evolution of genome sizes.

This study describes a new goniomonad genus and two species, updates the SSU rDNA phylogeny, and reports cellular features of goniomonads.

OligoN-design designs taxon-specific oligonucleotides from target and non-target sequences, outperforming existing tools by handling large datasets efficiently.

This study analyzes gene functional repertoires across Amoebozoa, Fungi, and Metazoa to reveal distinct evolutionary trajectories, showing Amoebozoa retained ancestral gene functions while Fungi and Metazoa specialized in metabolism and multicellularity.

The paper examines two new loricate choanoflagellate strains that show morphological discrepancies with their genetic relatives, challenging current taxonomic classifications based on morphology.

The paper describes two new Telonemia species, highlights morphological and phylogenetic differences, and provides insights into their biology and evolutionary significance.

The paper presents transcriptomic data for 11 free-living neobodonid kinetoplastids and reveals they are paraphyletic, with other metakinetoplastids descending from them.

The paper introduces eKOI, a curated mitochondrial COI gene database to improve taxonomic resolution in metabarcoding, revealing new biodiversity in protists.

This study identifies sugar transporter remodeling in a symbiotic microalga, revealing how metabolic exchange is reprogrammed during photosymbiosis with a planktonic host.

This study compares Dollo parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for ancestral gene content reconstruction, finding Dollo parsimony overestimates ancestral gene content, especially near the root of the tree.

This study investigates the relationship between protist metabarcoding OTUs and metagenome-assembled genomes by analyzing their abundance correlations across environmental samples.

EukRibo provides a curated 18S rDNA database for accurate taxonomic annotation of environmental metabarcoding data, focusing on eukaryotic diversity.