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Journal Articles European Journal of Protistology Year : 2016

Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages

Abstract

Environmental molecular surveys targeting protist diversity have unveiled novel and uncultured lineages in a variety of ecosystems, ranging from completely new high-rank lineages, to new taxa moderately related to previously described organisms. The ecological roles of some of these novel taxa have been studied, showing that in certain habitats they may be responsible for critical environmental processes. Moreover, from an evolutionary perspective they still need to be included in a more accurate and wider understanding of the eukaryotic tree of life. These seminal discoveries promoted the development and use of a wide range of more in-depth culture-independent approaches to access this diversity, from metabarcoding and metagenomics to single cell genomics and FISH. Nonetheless, culturing using classical or innovative approaches is also essential to better characterize this new diversity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists now face the challenge of apprehending the significance of this new diversity within the eukaryotic tree of life.
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hal-04777693 , version 1 (12-11-2024)

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Javier del Campo, Laure Guillou, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Ramiro Logares, Purificación López-García, et al.. Ecological and evolutionary significance of novel protist lineages. European Journal of Protistology, 2016, 55, ⟨10.1016/j.ejop.2016.02.002⟩. ⟨hal-04777693⟩
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