Microscopy image of Euglena
Three transparent sample containers filled with cloudy water in shades of yellow, green, and brown.
Microscopy image of Phacus, a flat, teardrop-shaped protist
π¦ Neither plant, animal, nor fungi: protists are beautiful, bizarre, and behaviourally complex.
For @sallywarring.bsky.social and @santa-walker.bsky.social at Earlham Institute, they're creating some fascinating scientific challenges.
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We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
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Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts
Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Members of genus Bodo are considered the closest free-living relatives to the parasitic ...
A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates.
We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky
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