A5010708501- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
University of Salzburg
2011-2020
Comenius University Bratislava
2017
GTx (United States)
1997
Clinique Clémentville
1996
Russian Academy of Sciences
1995
University of Bremen
1992
Universität Ulm
1987
University of Hohenheim
1981
University of Bonn
1980
SUMMARY A user‐friendly guide to 300 ciliate species (Protozoa, Ciliophora) used as bioindicators by river, lake and waste water ecologists is provided. The an English translation of the flow charts written in German published Foissner et al. (1991, 1992, 1994, 1995) Ciliate Atlas , a monograph on ciliates saprobic system. This designed for users not specifically trained identification ciliates. Main groups are keyed dichotomously forty‐seven using simple characters usually recognizable live...
This is an update of the review by Foissner (1991). Since then, I have improved some methods considerably. The following are described in detail: live observation, supravital staining with methyl green-pyronin, dry silver nitrate impregnation, wet carbonate protargol impregnation (three procedures), scanning electron microscopy, and deciliation. Familiarity these (or modifications) a prerequisite for successful taxonomic work. No method equally appropriate to all kinds ciliates. A table...
AME Aquatic Microbial Ecology Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 41:55-65 (2005) - doi:10.3354/ame041055 Reframing 'Everything is everywhere' debate: evidence for high gene flow and diversity in ciliate morphospecies Laura A. Katz1, 2, *, George B. McManus3, Oona L. O. Snoeyenbos-West1, 5, Autumn Griffin1, Katarzyna Pirog1, Barbara Costas3, Wilhelm Foissner4 1Department of Biological...
A total of 359 soil samples collected from five continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America) were investigated for the presence/absence ciliate species. Merging records by species identity, we have compiled a master data list (species sample matrix). In list, 964 (644 described 320 undescribed) are recorded. The distributions within across examined. frequency distribution over is used global diversity estimation. statistical ACE (abundance‐based coverage estimation) model...
ABSTRACT. The Stichotrichia, known as an especially various and taxonomically difficult group, were intensely studied with morphological, morphogenetic, molecular methods in the last years. Nevertheless, a consistent classification is lacking several important questions about phylogenetic relationships within this group remain unsolved. In order to gain deeper insights into these relationships, nuclear small subunit rRNA genes of seven species representatives families Oxytrichidae,...
The majority of environmental micro-organisms identified with the rRNA approach have never been visualized. Thus, their reliable classification and taxonomic assignment is often difficult or even impossible. In our preliminary 18S gene sequencing work from world's largest anoxic marine environment, Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea, Venezuela), we detected a ciliate clade, designated previously as CAR_H [Stoeck, S., Taylor, G. T. & Epstein, S. (2003). Appl Environ Microbiol 63, 5656-5663]. Here,...
ABSTRACT. The morphology and morphogenesis of some oligotrichs were investigated using protargol impregnation, silver carbonate impregnation scanning electron microscopy. somatic kineties Strobilidium caudatum form a spiral at the posterior pole. Strobilidiids without such are transferred to genus Rimostrombidium . Fourteen new combinations nomen novum, kahli , necessary, Meseres corlissi n. sp. is characterized by eight composed long cilia which not fused “bristles” as they in Halteria....