European Journal of Protistology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Protistology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Composition of cercozoan diversity: Unravelling leaf, root, and soil specificity in crop plants26
Characteristics analyses of Eimeria tenella 14-3-3 protein and verification of its interaction with calcium-dependent protein kinase 423
Two new freshwater foraminiferal species (SAR, Rhizaria) from Dinaric karst caves (southeastern Europe)19
A light and electron microscopical study on the resting cyst of the tintinnid Schmidingerella (Alveolata, Ciliophora) including a phylogeny-aware comparison18
Leptomyxa mirabilis n. sp. – A new species of the genus Leptomyxa (Amoebozoa, Tubulinea) with a remarkable floating form and unusual cyst structure18
Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a novel saline soil ciliate, Urosoma quadrinucleatum n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)17
Taxonomy and phylogeny of three species in Perichaena sensu lato (Myxomycetes = Myxogastria) from China15
It's time to consider the Arcellinida shell as a weapon15
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Euplotes baugilensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), with an illustrated key to Euplotes species with reduced cirri15
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of two new species of Psammophaga (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the west coast of India14
An investigation into the morphological variation and ecological-environmental range of Cyphoderia compressa: A case study of Scottish material14
Protist diversity and co-occurrence patterns obtained by metabarcoding of terricolous lichens, coastal cliffs and a microbial mat in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile13
Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of a new brackish water ciliate, Heterodeviata longa nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)13
Molecular phylogeny of Chonotrichia (Ciliophora, Phyllopharyngea) inferred from SSU rDNA sequences13
Algal organic matter alters protistan community structure and assembly processes in coastal sediments12
SEM observation of non-fixed and water freeze-dried Spirostomum ambiguum12
The devil is in the details: Cylindrifflugia luciferina spec. nov. reveals the phylogenetic backbone of the infraorder Cylindrothecina (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida)12
Nuclear genome of dinoflagellates: Size variation and insights into evolutionary mechanisms12
Morphology and phylogeny of four trachelocercid ciliates (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea, Trachelocercidae) from North China Sea, with description of a new species11
An approach to evaluating seasonal responses to acute toxicity of antibiotic nitrofurazone on periphytic ciliated protist communities in marine environments11
Architecture of the flagellar apparatus and related structures in Kolkwitziella acuta: Towards a fine-structural characterization of pallium-feeding dinoflagellates (Protoperidiniaceae)11
Description of Holostichides (Extraholostichides) eastensis tianjinensis subgen. nov. subspec. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) from northern China11
Revision of the Acanthocystis turfacea species complex, description of Acanthocystis pohjolensis n. sp. and notes on the phylogeny of Acanthocystis11
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Morphogenesis of the anaerobic ciliate Tropidoatractus levanderi (Ciliophora, Armophorea, Metopida), with notes on conjugation and molecular phylogeny10
Newly identified diversity of Dinomycetaceae (Rhizophydiales, Chytridiomycota), a family of fungal parasites of marine dinoflagellates10
Protistology-UK22 Autumn Meeting Report10
First redescription and molecular phylogeny of Trimyema claviforme Kahl, 1933 with the description of a Chinese population of Plagiopyla nasuta Stein, 1860 (Ciliophora, Plagiopylea)10
Ultrastructure and phylogeny of Parvodinium cunningtonii comb. nov. (syn. Peridiniopsis cunningtonii) and description of P. cunningtonii var. inerme var. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae)9
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species II. – Pseudostephanoeca paucicostata (Tong et al., 1998) gen. et comb. nov. (= Stephanoeca diplocostata var. paucicostata Throndsen, 9
Epiphytic and fimicolous myxomycetes on the island Hiddensee (Germany): rare species, new genotypes and unexpected ecological preferences9
Morphology and SSU rRNA gene-based phylogeny of three peniculid ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) from China, including a new Frontonia species9
Jirovecia branchilis n. sp. (Microsporidia) from glands of Branchiura sowerbyi (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae) in China9
Scottish nearshore monothalamid Foraminifera (Rhizaria): Description of five new species and one new genus9
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a new hypotrichous ciliate, Sterkiella zhangi n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oxytrichidae)8
Characterization of the macronuclear and micronuclear pheromone genes of Euplotes raikovi reveals the origin of the mating type genetic diversity8
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Quantitative analysis of trichocysts in Paramecium bursaria following artificial removal and infection with the symbiotic Chlorella variabilis7
Morphology and phylogeny of Pararaabena dentata Wolska, 1968 and further insights into the molecular evolution of trichostome ciliates (Ciliophora, Litostomatea)7
Coleps shanghaiensis n. sp. challenges the validity of the genus Levicoleps (Ciliophora, Prostomatida)7
Ultrastructural characterization of Amyloodinium ocellatum (Dinoflagellata): Insights into trophont morphology and parasitic mode7
Systematic reassessment of Ambiphrya and Apiosoma (Ciliophora, Peritrichia), with morpho-molecular characterization of two epibiotic ciliates from rainbow trout in Korea6
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Morphology, morphogenesis, and molecular phylogeny of Aspidisca koreana n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida) from South Korea6
Morphology and multi-gene phylogeny of Rubrioxytricha hasllaensis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) from South Korea6
Diversity of protists in dryland habitats of Qatar revealed by environmental metabarcoding6
Ciliates from the intestine of zoo-kept black rhinoceros, with immunofluorescence microscopic and molecular phylogenetic investigation of Rhinozeta rhinozeta (Litostomatea)6
Corrigendum to “Morphologic and molecular characterization of Apertospathula pilata n. sp., a novel freshwater spathidiid (Ciliophora Litostomatea) from Idaho USA” [Eur. J. Protistol. 89 (2023) 1259906
Testate amoebae (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) community diversity in New England bogs and fens assessed through lineage-specific amplicon sequencing6
Ecotoxicity of ultraviolet radiation on ciliates: Population growth, DNA damage and photooxidative stress6
The athecate dinoflagellate genus Karlodinium (Kareniaceae: Dinophyceae) from Mexican coastal waters, with three new records for the eastern Pacific Ocean6
Enchelyothrix muria n. gen, n. sp., (Ciliophora, Litostomatea, Spathidiida), an extreme halotroph spathidiid from Maharloo Lake, Iran6
First contours of autecology of freshwater heterotrophic euglenoids – results of two-year research on 18 freshwater bodies6
Checklist, diversity and biogeography of ciliates (Ciliophora) from Chile5
High molecular diversity in the functional group of small bacterivorous non-scaled chrysomonad flagellates5
Redescription and molecular phylogeny of Trochilia sigmoides Dujardin, 1841 (Ciliophora, Cyrtophoria) collected from South Korea5
A new microsporidian pathogen, Vairimorpha gastrophysae sp. nov., isolated from Gastrophysa viridula (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)5
Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of three anaerobic ciliates including Bothrostoma aporobustum nov. spec. (Ciliophora, Metopida)5
Armaparvus browni sp. nov. (Amoebozoa, Cutosea) isolated from an inland brackish water biotope5
Molecular characterization of methionine aminopeptidase1 from Eimeria tenella5
Azadinium fusiforme, a new species of Amphidomataceae from Korean and Japanese coastal waters that lacks azaspiracid production5
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two new Blepharisma species (Ciliophora, Heterotrichea) from northeastern China5
Acanthamoeba castellanii trophozoites escape killing by neutrophil extracellular traps using their 3′-nucleotidase/nuclease activity5
O short-branch Microsporidia, where art thou? Identifying diversity hotspots for future sampling5
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of two poorly known ciliate genera, Balantidion and Acropisthium (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea), including a new species of Balantidion5
Copterus tyloloricatus (Ciliophora, Suctorea), a new suctorian genus and species5
18S and ITS2 rRNA gene sequence-structure phylogeny of the Phaeophyceae (SAR, Stramenopiles) with special reference to Laminariales5
Molecular phylogenetic analyses support the validity of Ceratiomyxa porioides (Amoebozoa, Eumycetozoa) at species level5
Molecular characterization and analysis of enoyl-CoA hydratase/isomerase family protein of Eimeria tenella5
Parallel functional reduction in the mitochondria of apicomplexan parasites5
Siliceous scales in the centrohelid heliozoan Raphidocystis contractilis facilitate settlement to the substratum4
Diophrys pauciciliata n. sp. (Ciliophora, Euplotida), a new marine spirotrich ciliate with highly static morphometrics4
Use of E-64 cysteine protease inhibitor for the recombinant protein production in Tetrahymena thermophila4
Report of the 2022 meeting of the German Society for Protozoology4
Life history of Apocarchesium arndti Norf &  Foissner, 2010 (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) including recognition of a novel type of zooid4
A new centrohelid heliozoan, Pterocystis polycristalepis sp. nov., and taxonomic and phylogenetic concerns within Pterista (Haptista: Centroplasthelida)4
Two new species of the genus Leptomyxa (Goodey, 1915) – Leptomyxa botanica n. sp. and Leptomyxa monrepos n. sp. from the soil habitats of Northwestern Russia4
Pacific marine gregarines (Apicomplexa) shed light on biogeographic speciation patterns and novel diversity among early apicomplexans4
Eltonia chernetsovi gen. et sp. nov. (Heterolobosea, Eutetramitea) from an ecologically diverse clade comprising closely related soil and seawater species4
Carterina labinea sp. nov. – A new alien foraminifer from the Southeastern Mediterranean shelf4
Minimal zoonotic risk of cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis from frogs and reptiles4
Novel taxa of the centrohelid heliozoans (Pterocystida and Panacanthocystida) from agricultural soils4
Silica-scaled heterotrophic protists: Rotosphaerida, Thaumatomonadida and Centroplasthelida in Arctic waters of Russia4
Intraspecific variability of Neoparamoeba pemaquidensis (Page, 1970)4
Species-specific predation determines the feeding impacts of six soil protist species on bacterial and eukaryotic prey4
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Re-discovery and novel contributions to morphology and multigene phylogeny of Protospirella mazurica (Raabe, 1968) Aescht, 2001 (Ciliophora: Pleuronematida), an obligate symbiont of the river nerite T4
The saga of the false fossil foram Eozoon3
Cafeteria in extreme environments: Investigations on C. burkhardae and three new species from the Atacama Desert and the deep ocean3
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Testate amoebae are informative bioindicators of critically high ammonia deposition on peatlands3
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Ciliate diversity and growth rates in experimental recirculating aquaculture and aquaponics systems using microscopy3
Seasonal effects on Chlorella sorokiniana UCAM 001 growth and physiology in flat-plate photobioreactors in Morocco's arid climate3
Testate amoebae from the wetlands of the Phobjikha Valley of Bhutan, the Eastern Himalayas3
Contractile vacuoles: a rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding3
Expansion of the cytochrome C oxidase subunit I database and description of four new lobose testate amoebae species (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida)3
Description of Conchophthirus sinanodontae n. sp. (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatia), a new endocommensal ciliate of the freshwater mussel Sinanodonta woodiana from Korea3
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of three Parasonderia species including a new species (Ciliophora, Plagiopylea)3
Phylogenetic and morphological diversity of free-living diplomonads3
Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Keronopsis koreana n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha), a new soil species from South Korea2
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Stenamoeba aeronauta n. sp., a new case of sibling species in the order Thecamoebida (Amoebozoa, Discosea)2
Trait-based predictors of feeding ecology patterns in shelled microorganisms2
Identification and characterization of an ectophosphatase activity involved in Acanthamoeba castellanii adhesion to host cells2
Conjugation in Euplotes songi, a phylogenetically basal species in the genus Euplotes: Nuclear events and new pheromone gene variants2
PCNA's dual legacy in ciliates: Conserved replication scaffold and lineage-specific genome architect2
Bacterial communities and toxin profiles of Ostreopsis (Dinophyceae) from the Pacific island of Okinawa, Japan2
A new freshwater monothalamid (Rhizaria, Foraminifera) from the Pyrenees branching within a marine clade2
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High above the rest: standing behaviors in the amoebae of Sappinia and Thecamoeba2
Phylogenetic position of the pelobiont Mastigamoeba aspera and revision of the family Mastigamoebidae (Archamoebae, Pelobiontida)2
Typical and atypical cell division versus potential meiosis and sex in euglenids2
A comparative ultrastructural study on the nanoscale extrusomes of tintinnids (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and their phylogenetic significance2
Novel cercozoan and heterolobosean protists from the rhizosphere and phyllosphere of two endemic cacti from the Atacama Desert2
Morphological and molecular diversity of monothalamids (Rhizaria, Foraminifera), including two new species and a new genus, from SW Greenland2
Morphological and molecular analysis of Aggregata aspera n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Aggregatidae) in Amphioctopus ovulum and Amphioctopus marginatus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) from the Western Pacific Ocean2
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals genome evolution in predatory litostomatean ciliates2
Anaerocyclidiidae fam. nov. (Oligohymenophorea, Scuticociliatia): A newly recognized major lineage of anaerobic ciliates hosting prokaryotic symbionts2
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Genome-wide identification and in-silico analysis of papain-family cysteine protease encoding genes in Tetrahymena thermophila2
First record of Grammatodinium (Dinophyceae) for the American Eastern Pacific coast: Morphological, molecular and ecological confirmation2
Phylogenomics corroborates morphology: New discussions on the systematics of Trichostomatia (Ciliophora, Litostomatea)2
The mitochondrial citrate synthase from Tetrahymena thermophila does not form an intermediate filament2
Morphological and molecular reinvestigation of acanthoecid species III. – Kalathoeca cupula (Leadbeater, 1972) gen. et comb. nov. (=Stephanoeca cupula (Leadbeater) Thomsen, 1988)2
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