ProtistPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4166586
D. Caron, Alle A. Y. Lie, T. Buckowski, J. Turner, Kevin Frabotta
{"title":"The Effect of pH and Salinity on the Toxicity and Growth of the Golden Alga, Prymnesium parvum.","authors":"D. Caron, Alle A. Y. Lie, T. Buckowski, J. Turner, Kevin Frabotta","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4166586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4166586","url":null,"abstract":"Bioassays using cultures of the toxic haptophyte Prymnesium parvum and the ciliate Cyclidium sp. as prey were conducted to test the effect of pH (range = 6.5 - 8.5), salinity (range = 1.50 - 7.50‰), and a combination of pH and salinity on the toxicity of P. parvum. pH had a significant effect on P. parvum toxicity. Toxicity was rapidly (within 24 hr) induced by increasing pH of the medium, or reduced by lowering pH. Conversely, lowering salinity reduced toxicity, albeit less effectively compared to pH, and P. parvum cells remained toxic at the lowest values tested (1.50‰ at pH 7.5). An additional effect between pH and salinity was also observed: low salinity combined with low pH led to not only decreased toxicity, but also resulted in lower P. parvum growth rates. Such effects of pH and salinity on P. parvum growth and toxicity provide insight into the environmental factors supporting community dominance and toxic blooms of the alga.","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"174 1 1","pages":"125927"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47717108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4142146
John G. Day, Katharine H. Childs, G. Stacey
{"title":"Implications of a Catastrophic Refrigeration Failure on the Viability of Cryogenically Stored Samples.","authors":"John G. Day, Katharine H. Childs, G. Stacey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4142146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4142146","url":null,"abstract":"Cryopreservation, the use of very low temperatures to preserve structurally intact living cells and tissues, is a key underpinning technology for life science research and medicine. It is employed to ensure the stability of critical biological resources including viruses, bacteria, protists, animal cell cultures, plants, reproductive materials and embryos. Fundamental to ensuring this stability is assuring stability of cryogenic storage temperatures. Here we report the occurrence of a failure in refrigeration in a cryostat holding > 600 strains of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae. A strategic approach was adopted to assess viability across a cross-section of the biodiversity held, both immediately after the potentially damaging temperature shift and 10 years later, on subsequent cryostorage in liquid-phase nitrogen (∼-196 °C). Furthermore, the event was replicated experimentally and the effects on the viability of cryo-tolerant and cryo-sensitive strains monitored. Our results have significant implications to all users of this storage method and parallels have been drawn with the ongoing development in other fields and in particular, human cell therapy. Based on our practical experience we have made a series of generic recommendations for emergency, remedial and ongoing preventative actions.","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 6 1","pages":"125915"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48372898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved Methods for Bulk Cultivation and Fixation of Loxodes Ciliates for Fluorescence Microscopy","authors":"Brandon Kwee Boon Seah, Christiane Emmerich, Aditi Singh, Estienne Carl Swart","doi":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Loxodes</em> is one of the best ecologically characterized ciliate genera with numerous intriguing physiological abilities, including gravity-sensing organelles and nitrate respiration. However, these cells have been considered challenging to cultivate in bulk, and are poorly preserved by conventional fixatives used for fluorescence microscopy. Here we describe methods to grow and harvest <em>Loxodes</em> cells in bulk with liquid soil extract medium, as well as a new fixative called ZFAE (zinc sulfate, formaldehyde, acetic acid, ethanol) that can fix <em>Loxodes</em> cells more effectively than buffered formaldehyde or methanol. We show that ZFAE is compatible with immunofluorescence and the nuclear stain DAPI. <em>Loxodes</em> is thus now amenable to long-term maintenance, large-scale growth, and modern cell biology investigations of monoclonal strains in laboratory conditions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 5","pages":"Article 125905"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461022000505/pdfft?md5=3a0e3858784e9d921f16f284c467c601&pid=1-s2.0-S1434461022000505-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10451697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125904
Jan Woyzichovski , Oleg N. Shchepin , Martin Schnittler
{"title":"High Environmentally Induced Plasticity in Spore Size and Numbers of Nuclei per Spore in Physarum albescens (Myxomycetes)","authors":"Jan Woyzichovski , Oleg N. Shchepin , Martin Schnittler","doi":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125904","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125904","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Spore size enables dispersal in </span>plasmodial slime molds (Myxomycetes) and is an important taxonomic character. We recorded size and the number of nuclei per spore for 39 specimens (colonies of 50–1000 sporocarps) of the nivicolous myxomycete </span><span><em>Physarum</em><em> albescens</em></span><span>, a morphologically defined taxon with several biological species. For each colony, three sporocarps<span><span> were analyzed from the same spore mount under brightfield and DAPI-fluorescence, recording ca. 14,000 spores per item. Diagrams for spore size distribution showed narrow peaks of mostly uninucleate spores. Size was highly variable within morphospecies (10.6–13.5 µm, 11–13%), biospecies (3–13%), even within spatially separated colonies of one clone (ca. 8%); but fairly constant for a colony (mean variation 0.4 µm, ca. 1.5%). ANOVA explains most of this variation by the factor locality (within all colonies: 32.7%; within a region: 21.4%), less by biospecies (13.5%), whereas the contribution of intra-colony variation was negligible (<0.1%). Two rare aberrations occur: 1) </span>multinucleate<span> spores and 2) oversized spores with a double or triple volume of normal spores. Both are not related to each other or limited to certain biospecies. Spore size shows high phenotypic plasticity, but the low variation within a colony points to a strong genetic background.</span></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 5","pages":"Article 125904"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10793544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4152857
B. Leadbeater, M. Carr
{"title":"Significance of the Nudiform and Tectiform Modes of Silica Deposition, Lorica Assembly and Cell Division in Choanoflagellates as Exemplified by Stephanoeca diplocostata and Enibas spp.","authors":"B. Leadbeater, M. Carr","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4152857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4152857","url":null,"abstract":"The deposition of silicified costal strips and lorica assembly in choanoflagellates is precisely linked to the cell cycle. A minority of species undergo nudiform division whereby a loricate cell divides to produce a naked daughter cell that deposits a set of costal strips and then assembles a lorica. Most species undergo tectiform division whereby a parent loricate cell produces a set of costal strips, divides and passes on the stored strips to a daughter cell that immediately assembles a lorica. Many phylogenetic analyses recover nudiform and tectiform species as sister-clades giving the impression that they are distinct evolutionary lineages. However, the tectiform species Stephanoeca diplocostata is capable of undergoing nudiform division and depositing costal strips and assembling a lorica with certain modifications in a nudiform manner. The recent discovery of a new genus, Enibas, comprising species with Stephanoeca-like loricae that undergo nudiform cell division and on phylogenetic analysis occur as a sister group to other nudiform species has drawn attention to whether there are also unique features in lorica construction. A range of Enibas loricae is illustrated and it appears that there are unique features which might be interpreted as being derived from a Stephanoeca-like ancestor.","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 6 1","pages":"125923"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47877328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125908
Emma Filtenborg Hocke , Mahwash Jamy , Fabien Burki , C. Graham Clark , Christen Rune Stensvold
{"title":"Unravelling the Phylogeny of a Common Intestinal Protist: Intrageneric Diversity of Endolimax","authors":"Emma Filtenborg Hocke , Mahwash Jamy , Fabien Burki , C. Graham Clark , Christen Rune Stensvold","doi":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><em>Endolimax</em><em> nana</em></span><span> is a common endobiont of the human intestine, but members of the genus have also been reported in non-human hosts and in non-intestinal organs. Limited information is available regarding the genetic diversity of </span><em>Endolimax</em><span>, which is necessary to delineate species, host specificity and potential differences in clinical impact on the host. Here, we used cloning of PCR products followed by Sanger sequencing and next-generation PacBio Sequencing to obtain </span><em>Endolimax</em><span>-related nuclear ribosomal gene sequences and undertook a phylogenetic analysis to gain additional insight into the taxonomy of </span><em>Endolimax</em> and related organisms. The new sequences confirmed that <em>E. nana</em><span> forms a discrete clade within the Archamoebae and is related to </span><em>Endolimax piscium</em> and <em>Iodamoeba</em>. However, we identified substantial sequence divergence within <em>E. nana</em> and evidence for two distinct clades, which we propose to name <em>E. nana</em><span> ribosomal lineage 1 and </span><em>E. nana</em> ribosomal lineage 2. Both of the sequencing approaches applied in the study helped us to improve our understanding of genetic diversity across <em>Endolimax</em>, and it is likely that wider application of next-generation sequencing technologies will facilitate the generation of <em>Endolimax</em><span>-related DNA sequence data and help complete our understanding of its phylogenetic position and intrageneric diversity.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 5","pages":"Article 125908"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10813211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125909
Tong Wu , Yujie Liu , Yan Liu , Borong Lu , Xiao Cao , Shuang Hao , Saleh A. AL-Farraj , Alan Warren , Tengteng Zhang , Zhe Wang
{"title":"Integrative Studies on Three Epibiotic Epistylis Species (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Peritrichia) in Lake Weishan Wetland, Northern China, Including the Establishment of a New Species","authors":"Tong Wu , Yujie Liu , Yan Liu , Borong Lu , Xiao Cao , Shuang Hao , Saleh A. AL-Farraj , Alan Warren , Tengteng Zhang , Zhe Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three epibiotic <span><em>Epistylis</em></span> species, i.e., <em>Epistylis weishanensis</em> sp. nov., <em>Epistylis daphniae</em> Fauré-Fremiet, 1905, and <em>Epistylis pygmaeum</em> (Ehrenberg, 1838) Foissner et al., 1999, were investigated based on their living morphology, infraciliature, and small subunit (SSU) rDNA sequence data. <em>Epistylis weishanensis</em><span> sp. nov. is characterized by its double-layered peristomial lip, contractile vacuole located on the dorsal wall of the infundibulum, infundibular polykinety 3 (P3) composed of three equal-length rows that terminate above infundibular polykinety 1 (P1), 50–62 silverlines between the peristome and the trochal band, and about 30 silverlines between the trochal band and the scopula. Based on previous and newly obtained data for </span><em>E. daphniae</em> and <em>E. pygmaeum</em><span>, improved diagnoses and redescriptions<span> are provided including, for the first time, data on their infraciliature. Phylogenetic analyses reveal that all three species do not group within the major clade of </span></span><em>Epistylis</em>, supporting the assertion that the genus <em>Epistylis</em><span> should be an assemblage of morphospecies and therefore needs to be revised.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 5","pages":"Article 125909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10813654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2022.125907
Carlos F. Finlay
{"title":"Illustrating the Invisible: The Role of Drawing in the Career of Bland J. Finlay","authors":"Carlos F. Finlay","doi":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125907","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protis.2022.125907","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This is a dedicatory article to the role drawing played in the career of Bland J. Finlay FRS, written by his son. It explores some of the many diagrams Bland produced as part of his research, while reflecting on the broader influence of protozoloogical illustrations in art and architectural history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 5","pages":"Article 125907"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1434461022000529/pdfft?md5=f88193df428eb9d5ec8aa3b96d8185be&pid=1-s2.0-S1434461022000529-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40332099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProtistPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4208046
U. Berninger
{"title":"Some Personal Memories of Bland J. Finlay and Work on Protists in \"Priest Pot\".","authors":"U. Berninger","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4208046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4208046","url":null,"abstract":"With his scientific curiosity and deep understanding of unicellular organisms, Bland J. Finlay could demonstrate that water bodies as small and innocuous as \"Priest Pot\" in the English Lake District represent a very broad range of protists and their interactions. From this, not only the field of protistan ecology benefitted greatly, but also my personal career. Enclosed are some scientific and personal memories to say \"thank you\" to Bland.","PeriodicalId":20781,"journal":{"name":"Protist","volume":"173 6 1","pages":"125910"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49473833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}