OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspectives from Ten Years of Protist Studies by High‐Throughput Metabarcoding	75
Miliolidium n. gen, a New Symbiodiniacean Genus Whose Members Associate with Soritid Foraminifera or Are Free‐Living	31
The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean	29
Dense granule biogenesis, secretion, and function in Toxoplasma gondii	26
The increasing importance of Vermamoebavermiformis	21
The Complete Protist Symbiont Communities of Coptotermes formosanus and Coptotermes gestroi: Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Five New Species	19
Ecology of planktonic ciliates in a changing world: Concepts, methods, and challenges	19
Absolute quantification of chromosome copy numbers in the polyploid macronucleus of Tetrahymena thermophila at the single‐cell level	18
Bacterial symbiosis in ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Roads traveled and those still to be taken	16
Revised Taxonomy and Expanded Biodiversity of the Phytomyxea (Rhizaria, Endomyxa)	16
Two Anaerobic Ciliates (Ciliophora, Armophorea) from China: Morphology and SSU rDNA Sequence, with Report of a New Species, Metopus paravestitus nov. spec	16
Ultrastructural Changes of the Mitochondrion During the Life Cycle of Trypanosomabrucei	15
Anaerobic ciliates as a model group for studying symbioses in oxygen‐depleted environments	15
Functional Ecology of Two Contrasting Freshwater Ciliated Protists in Relation to Temperature	14
Mitochondrial adaptations throughout the Trypanosoma brucei life cycle	11
Giardia intestinalis and its endomembrane system*	11
Ion channels of cilia: Paramecium as a model	11
Biogenesis and metabolic homeostasis of trypanosomatid glycosomes: New insights and new questions	11
The Toxoplasma plant‐like vacuolar compartment (PLVAC)	11
Does Formation of Multicellular Colonies by Choanoflagellates Affect Their Susceptibility to Capture by Passive Protozoan Predators?	11
Division of BlastocystisST10 into three new subtypes: ST42‐ST44	10
A Functional Aqp1 Gene Product Localizes on The Contractile Vacuole Complex in Parameciummultimicronucleatum	9
Microeukaryotic Communities Associated With the Seagrass Zostera marina Are Spatially Structured	9
Anterior–posterior pattern formation in ciliates	9
Molecular Identification of Cryptosporidium spp., Enterocytozoonbieneusi, and Giardiaduodenalis in Captive Pet Birds in Henan Province, Central China	9

Taxonomy of the Apicomplexan Symbionts of Coral, including Corallicolida ord. nov., Reassignment of the Genus Gemmocystis, and Description of New Species Corallicolaaquarius gen.	9
Identification and validation of novel Blastocystis subtype ST41 in a Colombian patient undergoing colorectal cancer screening	9
New insights into the role of acidocalcisomes in trypanosomatids	9
Dynamics of cell death across growth stages and the diel cycle in the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis	8
The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils	8
The old and the new about the contractile vacuole of Trypanosoma cruzi	8
The importance of type species and their correct identification: A key example from tintinnid ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha)	8
Paramecium epigenetics in development and proliferation	8
A new microsporidian parasite, Ordospora pajunii sp. nov (Ordosporidae), of Daphnia longispina highlights the value of genomic data for delineating species boundaries	8
Molecular characterization of serine/threonine protein phosphatase of Eimeria tenella	8
First Report of Blastocystis Infection in Pigs from Large Farms in Xinjiang, China	7
Roles of the apicoplast across the life cycles of rodent and human malaria parasites	7
Parasite powerhouse: A review of the Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrion	6
Ciliate cortical organization and dynamics for cell motility: Comparing ciliates and vertebrates	6
The mitosome of the anaerobic parasitic protist Entamoeba histolytica: A peculiar and minimalist mitochondrion‐related organelle	6
Macronuclear development in ciliates, with a focus on nuclear architecture	6
An Integrative Investigation of Parabistichella variabilis (Protista, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) Including Its General Morphology, Ultrastructure, Ontogenesis, and Molecular Phylogeny	6
Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria)	6
Mechanisms for establishing primary and secondary endosymbiosis in Paramecium	6
The hydrogenosome of Trichomonas vaginalis	6
Using average nucleotide identity (ANI) to evaluate microsporidia species boundaries based on their genetic relatedness	5
Morphology and phylogeny of two anaerobic freshwater ciliates: Brachonella comma sp. nov. and the widely distributed but little‐known caenomorphid, Ludio parvulus Penard, 1922	5
Protozoan phagotrophy from predators to parasites: An overview of the enigmatic cytostome‐cytopharynx complex of Trypanosoma cruzi	5
Redescription of Rigidohymena inquieta (Stokes, 1887) Berger, 2011 as Metahymena inquieta gen. nov., comb. nov. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha) Based on Morphology, Morphogenesis, and Molecular	5
New contributions to the Cyrtophoria ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora): Establishment of new taxa and phylogenetic analyses using two ribosomal genes	5
Further insight into the genetic diversity of Entamoeba coli and Entamoeba hartmanni	5
Cell wall proteomic analysis of the cnidarian photosymbionts Breviolum minutum and Cladocopium goreaui	5
Pontisma blauvikense sp. nov. the first member of the early‐diverging oomycete genus Pontisma parasitizing brown algae	5
Seasonal monitoring of Cryptosporidium species and their genetic diversity in neonatal calves on two large‐scale farms in Xinjiang, China	5
Silica‐scaled heterotrophic protists Rotosphaerida, Thaumatomonadida, and Centroplasthelida in the large continuous ecosystem connecting Lake Baikal to the Kara Sea	5
New contribution to the peritrichous genus Ophrydium (Protista, Ciliophora) with notes on the morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of a well‐known species Ophrydium crassicaule Penard, 19	5
The evolution of pre‐mRNA splicing and its machinery revealed by reduced extremophilic red algae	5
Physiological Responses of Mesodiniummajor to Irradiance, Prey Concentration and Prey Starvation	5
Molecular evolutionary analysis of the SM and SNARE vesicle fusion machinery in ciliates shows concurrent expansions in late secretory machinery	5
Characterization of Pre‐mRNA Splicing and Spliceosomal Machinery in Porphyridiumpurpureum and Evolutionary Implications for Red Algae	5
Photosynthetic Sponge‐associated Eukaryotes in the Aegean Sea: A Culture‐dependent Approach	5
A comparative ultrastructural study of tintinnid loricae (Alveolata, Ciliophora, Spirotricha) and a hypothesis on their evolution	5
A novel 2A‐peptide‐containing plasmid to generate stable Perkinsusmarinus cells expressing organelle‐targeted genes	4
Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (	4
Bioactive molecules from ciliates: Structure, activity, and applicative potential	4
Microsporidia Can Acquire Lamin‐like Intermediate Filaments and Cell Adhesion Catenin‐cadherin Complexes from the Host (?)	4
Identification and Characterization of a Novel Apical Membrane Antigen 3 in Eimeria tenella	4
Characterization of Cystathionine β‐Synthase TtCbs1 and Cysteine Synthase TtCsa1 Involved in Cysteine Biosynthesis in Tetrahymenathermophila	4
Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar: Morphological and Behavioral Differences Induced by Fibronectin through GTPases Activation and Actin‐Binding Proteins	4
The long‐time orphan protist Meringosphaeramediterranea Lohmann, 1902 [1903] is a centrohelid heliozoan	4
Morphology, Morphogenesis and Phylogenetic Position of the Soil Hypotrichous Ciliate, Parabistichelladieckmanni (Foissner, 1998) Foissner, 2016 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia), with Notes on t	4
Insights into the Morphology of Haplozoan Parasites (Dinoflagellata) using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy	4
Putative Meiotic Toolkit in the Dinoflagellate Prorocentrum cordatum: Additional Evidence for Sexual Process from Transcriptome	4
The Ability of Tetrahymena utriculariae (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) to Colonize Traps of Different Species of Aquatic Carnivorous Utricularia	4
Txikispora philomaios n. sp., n. g., a micro‐eukaryotic pathogen of amphipods, reveals parasitism and hidden diversity in Class Filasterea	4

Roles of Adenylate Cyclases in Ciliary Responses of Paramecium to Mechanical Stimulation	4
Through the eDNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions	4
Expanding the molecular and morphological diversity of Apusomonadida, a deep‐branching group of gliding bacterivorous protists	4