Parasites belonging to fungal, apicomplexan and stramenopile lineages show greater or lesser degrees of gene loss in comparisons with their free-living sister clades, but typically counts of their TFs and CPs do not deviate to a large extent from the general trend observed across eukaryotes. Hence...
Although Foraminifera appeared to comprise a small fraction of the active protist community, they were diverse and present at all sites. This is supported by a recent targeted DNA survey that detected diverse foraminiferan SSU rRNA genes in 17 out of 20 soils samples (Lejzerowicz et al., ...
These singletons were removed from further analyses, because these comprise a high proportion of technical artefacts (Tedersoo et al., 2010). The longest sequence of each remaining 9614 clusters was selected as a representative for BLASTn sequence similarity search (word size = 7; penalties: ...
worldwide, and comprise marine, freshwater, terrestrial, symbiotic, and pathogenic strains2,6,7. However, taxonomists estimate that the known representatives compose only a small portion of the total of protists on Earth today, and that the diversity of this group is greater than that of metaz...