Amoebozoa is the eukaryotic supergroup sister to Obazoa, the lineage that contains the
animals and Fungi, as well as their protistan relatives, and the breviate and apusomonad …

Recent phylogenetic analyses position certain “orphan” protist lineages deep in the tree of
eukaryotic life, but their exact placements are poorly resolved. We conducted phylogenomic …

Phylogenomic analyses of hundreds of protein-coding genes aimed at resolving phylogenetic
relationships is now a common practice. However, no software currently exists that …

Background Acanthamoebidae is a “family” level amoebozoan group composed of the
genera Acanthamoeba, Protacanthamoeba, and very recently Luapeleamoeba. This clade of …

Life was microbial for the majority of Earth's history, but as very few microbial lineages leave
a fossil record, the Precambrian evolution of life remains shrouded in mystery. Shelled (…

A wide diversity of organisms utilize faecal habitats as a rich nutrient source or a mechanism
to traverse through animal hosts. We sequenced the 18S rRNA genes of the coprophilic, …

Ochrophyta is an algal group belonging to the Stramenopiles and comprises diverse lineages
of algae which contribute significantly to the oceanic ecosystems as primary producers. …

Sorodiplophrys stercorea is a sorocarpic organism that utilizes filose pseudopodia for
locomotion and absorptive nutrition. It has traditionally been considered to be a member of the …

Archamoebae is an understudied group of anaerobic free-living or endobiotic protists that
constitutes the major anaerobic lineage of the supergroup Amoebozoa. Hitherto, the …

Myxogastria (also called Myxomycetes or plasmodial slime‐moulds) are mostly known
through their usually conspicuous fruiting bodies. Another unifying trait is the presence of a …