This study was carried out in two hypersaline lakes (Acı and Meke Lakes) Turkey to understand the diversity geographic distribution of free-living heterotrophic flagellates. Heterotrophic flagellates environments have not previously been studied Turkey. We found seventeen morphospecies with one unidentified protist. The observed species belong Craspedida, Heterolobosea, Apusomonadida, Neobodoni...

Although ctenophores can be conspicuous components of the plankton in coastal marine ecosystems, only six species have been formally described from around South Africa. Using photographs local community scientists, we add a further three ( Cestum veneris, Beroe forskalii ?, Ocyropsis maculata ?) and morphospecies to regional fauna. These additions suggest that Africa has ctenophore fauna is amo...

The possible existence of endemism among microorganisms resulting from and preserved by geographic isolation is one of the most controversial topics in microbial ecology. We isolated 31 strains of "Spumella-like" flagellates from remote sampling sites from all continents, including Antarctica. These and another 23 isolates from a former study were characterized morphologically and by small-subu...

A review of reproduction in the myxomycetes reveals that they have a basic one-locus multiplealleleic heterothallic mating system, which controls syngamy between haploid amoeboflagellates to produce the diploid plasmodium. However, each morphologically defined species contains a number of biological sibling species that can’t interbreed with each other and are centered in different regions of t...

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the high levels of plant diversity in the Neotropics today, but little is known about diversification patterns of Neotropical floras through geological time. Here, we present the longest time series compiled for palynological plant diversity of the Neotropics (15 stratigraphic sections, 1530 samples, 1411 morphospecies, and 287,736 occurrences) f...