Literature

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This section reports the newest publications in testate amoeba research. Add your own papers as they appear in print or online!

2012

[Payne RJ, Telford RJ, Blackford JJ, Blundell A, Booth RK, Charman DJ, Lamentowicz Ł, Lamentowicz M, Mitchell EAD, Potts G, Swindles GT, Warner BG, Woodland WA. 2012. Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions: appropriate methods for clustered training-sets. The Holocene. xx: xxx-xxx. doi: 10.1177/0959683611430412]

Hájková P., Grootjans A., Lamentowicz M., Rybníčková E., Madaras M., Opravilová V., Michaelis D., Hájek M., Joosten H., Wołejko L. 2012. How a Sphagnum fuscum dominated bog changed into a calcareous fen: the unique Holocene history of a Slovak spring fed mire. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.153

Kosakyan A, Heger TJ, Leander BS, Todorov M, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2012. COI Barcoding of Nebelid Testate Amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): Extensive Cryptic Diversity and Redefinition of Family Hyalospheniidae Schultze. Protist 163(3): 415-434. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.10.003

Tsyganov AN, Aerts R, Nijs I, Cornelissen JHC, Beyens L. 2012. Sphagnum-dwelling Testate Amoebae in Subarctic Bogs are More Sensitive to Soil Warming in the Growing Season than in Winter: the Results of Eight-year Field Climate Manipulations. Protist 163(3): 400-414 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2011.07.005.

Gomaa F, Todorov M, Heger TJ, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2012. SSU rRNA phylogeny of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) reveals that the largest Arcellinida genus, Difflugia Leclerc 1815, is not monophyletic. Protist 163(3): 389-399 doi:10.1016/j.protis.2011.12.001

Fournier B, Malysheva E, Mazei Y, Moretti M, Mitchell EAD. 2012. Toward the use of testate amoeba functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success. European Journal of Soil Biology. 49: 85-91. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.05.008

Heger TJ, Straub F, Mitchell EAD. 2012. Impact of farming practices on soil diatoms and testate amoebae: A pilot study in the DOK-Trial at Therwil, Switzerland. European Journal of Soil Biology. 49: 31-36. doi: doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2011.08.007

Payne R, Lamentowicz M, van der Knaap WO, van Leeuwen J, Mitchell EAD, Mazei Y. 2012. Testate amoebae in pollen slides. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 173 68–79. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.09.006

Wilkinson D, Koumoutsaris S, Mitchell EAD, Bey I. 2012. Modelling the effect of size on the aerial dispersal of microorganisms. Journal of Biogeography. 39: 89–97. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02569.x

2011

van der Knaap WO, Lamentowicz M, van Leeuwen JFN, Hangartner S, Leuenberger M, Mauquoy D, Goslar T, Mitchell EAD, Lamentowicz Ł, Kamenik C. 2011. A multi-proxy, high-resolution record of peatland development and its drivers during the last millennium from the subalpine Swiss Alps. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30: 3467-3480. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.017

Ooms M., Beyens L., Temmerman S. 2011. Testate amoebae as etuarine water-level indicators: modern distribution and the development of a transfer function from a freshwater tidal marsh (Scheldt estuary, Belgium). Journal of Quaternary Science 26(8):819-828. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1510

Mazei Yu., Chernyshov V. 2011. Testate amoebae communities in the southern tundra and forest-tundra of Western Siberia. Biology Bulletin. Volume 38, Number 8, 789-796, DOI: 10.1134/S1062359011080036

van der Knaap, W.O., Lamentowicz, M., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Hangartner, S., Leuenberger, M., Mauquoy, D., Goslar, T., Mitchell, E.A.D., Lamentowicz, Ł., Kamenik, C. 2011. A multi-proxy, high-resolution record of peatland development and its drivers during the last millennium from the subalpine Swiss Alps. Quaternary Science Reviews 30 (23-24): 3467–3480 DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.017

Lamentowicz, Ł., Gąbka, M., Rusińska, A., Sobczyński, T., Owsianny, P. M. and Lamentowicz M. 2011. Testate amoeba (Protists) ecology along a poor-rich gradient in fens of western Poland. International Review of Hydrobiology 96, 356-380.

Heger, T.J, R.K. Booth, M.E. Sullivan, D.M. Wilkinson, B.G. Warner, T. Asada, Y. Mazei, R. Meisterfeld, & E.A.D. Mitchell. 2011. Rediscovery of Nebela ansata (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) in eastern North America: biogeographical implications. Journal of Biogeography 38:1897–1906

Sullivan, M.E. & R.K. Booth. 2011. The potential influence of short-term environmental variability on the composition of testate amoeba communities in Sphagnum peatlands. Microbial Ecology 62:80–93

T. Bosak, D.J.G. Lahr, S.B. Pruss, F.A. Macdonald, L. Dalton and E. Matys. 2011. Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 308:29-40.

Lahr DJG, Grant J, Nguyen T, Lin JH, Katz LA (2011) Comprehensive Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Amoebozoa Based on Concatenated Analyses of SSU-rDNA and Actin Genes. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22780. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022780

Bernasconi SM, Bauder A, Bourdon B, Brunner I, Bünemann E, Christl I, Derungs N, Edwards P, Farinotti D, Frey B, Frossard E, Furrer G, Gierga M, Göransson H, Gülland K, Hagedorn F, Hajdas I, Hindshaw R, Ivy-Ochs S, Jansa J, Jonas T, Kiczka M, Kretzschmar R, Lemarchand E, Luster J, Magnusson J, Mitchell EAD, Olde Venterink H, Plötze M, Reynolds B, Smittenberg R, Stähli M, Tamburini F, Tipper ET, Wacker L, Welc M, Wiederhold JG, Zeyer J, Zimmermann S, Zumsteg A. 2011. Chemical and biological gradients along the Damma Glacier soil chronosequence (Switzerland). Vadose Zone Journal 10: 867–883. doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0129

Jassey VEJ, Gilbert D, Binet P, M-L Toussaint, Chiapusio G. 2011. Effect of a temperature gradient on //Sphagnum fallax// and its associated living microbial communities: a study under controlled conditions. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 57(3): 226-235. doi: 10.1139/W10-116

Mazei Yu., Blinokhvatova Yu., Embulaeva E. 2011. Specific features of the microspatial distribution of soil testate amoebae in the forests of the Middle Volga region. Arid Ecosystems. 1(1): 46-52. doi: 10.1134/S2079096111010069

Tsyganov AN, Nijs I, Beyens L. 2011. Does climate warming stimulate or inhibit soil protist communities? A test on testate amoebae in high-Arctic tundra with Free Air Temperature Increase. Protist 162(2) 237–248. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2010.04.006

Lahr DJG, Wegener Parfrey L, Mitchell EAD, Katz LA, Lara E. 2011. The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms. Proceeding of the Royal Society B- Biological Sciences 278(1715): 2081-2090. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0289
nb. This paper has attracted quite some attention on the web. For example see [http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/01/draft-post-cleanup-5-best-science-paper.html
the "Tree of Life" Blog of Jonathan A. Eisen who delivered a "Best Science Paper Endings Award" to this paper for the last sentence "When discussing the sex of amoeboid protists, the existing evidence does not evoke chastity but rather Kama Sutra"!]

Lahr DJG, Souza MBG. 2011. Occurrence of the lobose testate amoeba Pseudonebela africana (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida) in the Brazilian “cerrado”. European Journal of Protistology. 47(3) 231–234.

Lara E, Heger TJ, Scgeihing R, Mitchell EAD. 2011. Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene and ecological data suggest size-dependent high dispersal and low intra-specific diversity in free-living terrestrial protists (Euglyphida: Assulina). Journal of Biogeography. 68: 640-650. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02426.x

Qin Y, Xie S, Smith HG, Swindles GT, Gu Y. 2011. Diversity, distribution and biogeography of testate amoebae in China: Implications for ecological studies in Asia. European Journal of Protistology 47(1):1-9

Jassey VEJ, Chapuiso G, Mitchell EAD, Binet P, Toussaint M-L, Gilbert D. 2011. Fine-scale horizontal and vertical micro-distribution patterns of testate amoebae along a narrow fen/bog gradient. Microbial Ecology 61:374–385. doi: 10.1007/s00248-010-9756-9

Lahr DJG, Nguyen TB, Barbero E, Katz LA. 2011. Evolution of the Actin Gene Family in Testate Lobose Amoebae (Arcellinida) is Characterized by Two Distinct Clades of Paralogs and Recent Independent Expansions. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 223-236

Payne RJ, Lamentowicz M, Mitchell EAD. 2011. The perils of taxonomic inconsistency in quantitative palaeoecology: experiments with testate amoeba data. Boreas 40: 15–27

Vohník M, Burdíková Z, Vyhnal A, Koukol O. 2011. Interactions Between Testate Amoebae and Saprotrophic Microfungi in a Scots Pine Litter Microcosm. Microbial Ecology, 61(3) 660-668. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9777-4

Lara, E, Mitchell EAD, Moreira D, López García P. 2011. Highly diverse and temporally changing protist community in a pristine peat bog. Protist 162(1) 14-32

Heger TJ. Pawlowski J, Golemanski V, Todorov M, Lara E, Mitchell EAD. 2011. Comparing potential COI and SSU rDNA barcodes for assessing the diversity and phylogenetic relationships of cyphoderiid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Euglyphida). Protist 162(1) 131-141. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2010.05.002

2010

Bobrov A., Mazei Yu., Tiunov A. 2010. Testate amoebae of a monsoon tropical forest of south VietNam. Acta Protozoologica. 49(4): 311-325.

Krashevska, V., Maraun, M., Ruess, L., Scheu, S., 2010. Carbon and nutrient limitation of soil microorganisms and microbial grazers in a tropical montane rain forest. Oikos 119, 1020-1028

Krashevska, V., Maraun, M., Ruess, L., Scheu, S., 2010. Micro- and macroscale changes in density and diversity of testate amoebae of tropical montane rain forests of southern Ecuador. Acta Protozoologica 49, 17–28

Booth RK, Meyers B. 2010. Environmental controls on pore number in Hyalosphenia papilio: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Acta Protozoologica 49: 29-35

Wall A, Magny M, Mitchell EAD, Vannière B, Gilbert D. 2010. Response of testate amoeba assemblages to environmental and climatic changes during the Lateglacial–Holocene transition at Lake Lautrey (Jura Mountains, eastern France). Journal of Quaternary Science 25(6) 945-956

Wall A, Gilbert D, Magny M, Mitchell EAD. 2010. Testate amoeba analysis of lake sediments: impact of filter size and total count on estimates of density, diversity and community structure. Journal of Paleolimnology 43: 689–704

Carlson ML, Flagstad L, Gillet F, Mitchell EAD. 2010. Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are aboveground and belowground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors? Journal of Ecology 98, 1084-1095

Lamentowicz M, Lamentowicz Ł, van der Knaap WO, Gąbka M, Mitchell EAD. 2010. Contrasting species—environment relationships in communities of testate amoebae, bryophytes and vascular plants along the fen–bog gradient. Microbial Ecology 59: 499–510

Lamentowicz M, van der Knaap WO, Lamentowicz Ł, van Leeuwen JFN, Mitchell EAD, Goslar T, Kamenik C. 2010. A near-annual palaeohydrological study based on testate amoebae from an Alpine mire: surface wetness and the role of climate during the instrumental period Journal of Quaternary Science 25(2): 190-202

Heger TJ, Mitchell EAD, Todorov M, Golemansky V, Lara E, Pawlowski J. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggest transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 113-122

General Literature

The literature on testate amoebae is highly scattered and in many cases difficult to find. As a service to the community an EndNote library is provided here (Edward Mitchell, University of Neuchâtel). All papers listed in this library are available as pdf. We will be looking for an easy way to make these accessible, for now hopefully this library will be useful. Our plan is to also make this updatable so that if you have references that are not listed in this library you could add them as well as the corresponding pdf. Any suggestions are welcome!

EndNote library for testate amoeba papers

Medioli et al. reference list (THE THECAMOEBIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY)