Editor-in-Chief Joel Dacks shares what has been happening at Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology over the past few months. protistologists.org/a-note-from-th…

Production of amphisterol and other Δ8(14) sterols by Togula jolla (formerly Amphidinium sensu lato) overlaps chemotaxonomically with Amphidinium carterae Braedyn E. Hollingsworth et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The planktonic freshwater #ciliate Balanion planctonicum (Ciliophora, Prostomatea): A cryptic species complex or a “complex species”? Martina Schalch-Schuler, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

🚨 New paper! Pathogenicity and phylogeny of Labyrinthula spp. isolated in Washington and Oregon, USA - pathogenic isolates could be identified as L. zosterae, while nonpathogenic isolates did not form a clade with any previously identified SSU ribotypes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free-living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae Julia A. Packer et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Ultrastructure of Olkasia polycarbonata (Euglenozoa, #Euglenida) demonstrates cytoskeletal innovations associated with the feeding and flagellar apparatuses Maia V. Palka, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je… #protists #OpenAccess

Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Endosymbiotic Ciliates (Peritrichia, Mobilida) of Marine Invertebrates with Descriptions of Two Novel Species Urceolaria clepsydra n. sp. and Urceolaria bratalia n. sp. Gabrielle Martinez et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

First published paper! I'm thrilled to be a co-author of this work by Jara-Zapata et al., which reports for the first time the presence of the genus Aplanochytrium on the Chilean coast, expanding its geographical distribution 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/jeu.70…

Protistologists work around the world in many languages & alphabets. We want to meet you as you see yourself. Now authors can also include their names in any script they want in published papers at JEM. Learn how in our Checklist for Manuscript Prep: bit.ly/3G3PANH

Protistologists work around the world in many languages and alphabets. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology want to meet you as you see yourself. Now authors can also include their names in any script they want in published manuscripts at JEM. Learn how ➡️ow.ly/668s50VB1OR

We’ve published incredible #protist research in the first quarter of 2025! Julia Packer et al. describe two new species of free-living bacterivores including Novijibodo darinka pictured here. Check out the open access paper from our Jan/Feb issue. doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

Check out exciting protist research in JEM! Holly Moeller et al. explore the feeding habits of Mesodinium rubrum and provide a tool for studying its cell biology and photophysiology in their open access paper in our March/April issue! doi.org/10.1111/jeu.13…

🆕 Out now in JEM (Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology)! Using gene and organelle phylogenies from recovered cysts, we describe Apostichocystis gudetama, an apicomplexan parasite found in the ovaries of the Japanese sea cucumber 🥚🥒🇯🇵 dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeu.70…

The Sea Cucumber-Infecting Parasite Apostichocystis gudetama gen. nov. sp. nov. Expands Marine-Host-Specific Clade of Apicomplexans #microbiology #protists #parasites Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

Highlighted paper! Daisuke Yamagishi, et al. open a new front in the drive to understand photosymbiosis in #protists. 丸山ラボ Article➡️ doi.org/10.1111/jeu.70…

Check out this month's highlighted paper from the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 'Algal Symbiont Diversity and Host Fitness Variation in Amoebozoan Photosymbiosis.' ow.ly/Hkqf50WakQs 丸山ラボ Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

We're highlighting some of the best #parasitology papers we've published in the last 5 years. Check out this special collection. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…

Happy to see our Pirsoniales paper in the list! Thank you Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.

🥳Congratulations to Monica Santin and colleagues for winning the Trager Award for the most cited paper in the past two-year period. ➡️Check out the paper: Division of Blastocystis ST10 into three new subtypes: ST42-ST44 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

The microscopic world is full of surprises! This stunning SEM reveals the parasite Cyrilia lignieresi living inside a red blood cell of the freshwater fish Synbranchus marmoratus. A rare snapshot of the complexity of life invisible to the naked eye. ➡️doi.org/10.1111/jeu.70…