Understanding and Recognition of Protist Diversity and Evolution

• Applicant: Dr. Micah Dunthorn, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions ; Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 404327609

• Final Report Year: 2022

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• Revisions to the classification, nomenclature, and diversity of eukaryotes. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Vol. 66. 2019, Issue 1, pp. 4-119.
  Adl, S.M., D. Bass, C.E. Lane, J. Lukeš, C.L. Schoch, A. Smirnov, S. Agatha, C. Berney, M.W. Brown, F. Burki, P. Cárdenas, I. Čepička, L. Chistyakova, J. del Campo, M. Dunthorn, B. et al.
  
• Genome evolution of asexual organisms and the paradox of sex in eukaryotes. In: P. Pontarotti (ed.). Evolutionary Biology—A Transdisciplinary Approach. Springer, Cham, 2020, pp. 133-167.
  Hörandl, E. J. Bast, A. Brandt, S. Scheu, C. Bleidorn, M. Cordellier, M. Nowrousian, D. Begerow, A. Sturm, K. Verhoeven, J. Boenigk, T. Friedl, M. Dunthorn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57246-4_7)
• Assessing biotic and abiotic interactions of microorganisms in Amazonia through co-occurrence networks and DANN metabarcoding. Microbial Ecology, Vol. 82. 2021, pp. 746–760.
  Ritter, C.D., D. Forster, J.A.R. Azevedo, A. Antonelli, R.H. Nilsson, M.E. Trujillo, M. Dunthorn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01719-6)
• Colpodean ciliate phylogeny and reference alignments for phylogenetic placements. European Journal of Protistology, Vol. 77. 2021, 125747.
  Rajter, L., I. Ewers, N. Graupner, P. Vďačný, M. Dunthorn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2020.125747)
• Metabarcoding advances for ecology and biogeography of Neotropical protists: what do we know, where do we go? Biota Neotropica, Vol. 21, Issue: 4, 20211214.
  Ritter, C.D., A.F. Machado, K.F. Ribeiro, M. Dunthorn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2021-1214)
• The windblown: possible explanations for dinophyte DANN in forest soils. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Vol. 68. 2021, Issue 1, e12833.
  Gottschling, M., L. Czech, F. Mahé, S. Adl, M. Dunthorn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12833)
• Swarm v3: towards tera-scale amplicon clustering. Bioinformatics, Vol. 38. 2022, Issue 1, pp. 267–269.
  Mahé, F., L. Czech, A. Stamatakis, C. Quince, C. de Vargas, M. Dunthorn, T. Rognes
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab493)