Multiple parallel origins of parasitic Marine Alveolates

Abstract Microbial eukaryotes are important components of marine ecosystems, and the Marine Alveolates (MALVs) are consistently both abundant and diverse in global environmental sequencing surveys. MALVs are dinoflagellates that are thought to be parasites of other protists and animals, but the lack...

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Main Authors: Corey C. Holt, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Victoria K. L. Jacko-Reynolds, Noriko Okamoto, Elizabeth C. Cooney, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Patrick J. Keeling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42807-0