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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! Please follow the style using the latest added publications as example.
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Pérez-Juárez H., Serrano-Vázquez A, Kosakyan A, Mitchell EAD, Lahr DJG, Rivera Aguilar VM, Hernández Moreno MM. Macías Cuellar H, Eguiarte LE, Lara E. 2017. Quadrulella texcalense sp. nov. from Mexican desert: an unexpected new environment for hyalospheniid testate amoebae. European Journal of Protistology 61(A): 253-264. Doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.06.008
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Fernández L, Fournier B, Rivera R, Lara E, Mitchell EAD, Hernandez CE. 2016. Water–energy balance, past ecological perturbations and evolutionary constraints shape the latitudinal diversity gradient of soil testate amoebae in south-western South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25(10): 1216–1227 Doi: 10.1111/geb.12478
The cover of this issue of the journal shows Apodera vas! DOI: 10.1111/geb.12478
Mitchell EAD 2015 Pack hunting by minute soil testate amoebae: nematode hell is a naturalist's paradise. Environmental Microbiology. 17 (11): 4145-4147. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13025 - now on open access
Kosakyan A, Mulot M, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2015. Environmental DNA COI barcoding for quantitative analysis of protists communities: A test using the Nebela collaris complex (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida; Hyalospheniidae). European Journal of Protistology 51 (4): 311-320. Doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2015.06.005 Open access here: http://doc.rero.ch/record/256529.
Gomaa F, Kosakyan A, Heger TJ, Corsaro D, Mitchell EAD, Lara E. 2014. One Alga to Rule them All: Unrelated Mixotrophic Testate Amoebae (Amoebozoa, Rhizaria and Stramenopiles) Share the Same Symbiont (Trebouxiophyceae). Protist 165(2): 161-176. doi: /10.1016/j.protis.2014.01.002
This paper was the most saved Protist article on Mendeley for 2015!
Chatelain AP, Meisterfeld R, Roussel-Delif L, Lara E. 2013. Sphenoderiidae (fam. nov.), a New Clade of Euglyphid Testate Amoebae Characterized by Small, Round Scales Surrounding the Aperture. Protist, 164: 782–792
See the buzz this paper created:
http://www5.unine.ch/newsletter/honneur_chatelain.html
http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/romandie/story/Decouverte-insolite-par-un-etudiant-a-l-universite-10111278
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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"!]
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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)