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| Thorsten StoeckSummaryAffiliation: University of Kaiserslautern Country: Germany Publications
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Environmental rRNA inventories miss over half of protistan diversitySunok Jeon
Department of Environmental Science, Kangwon National University, Kangwon Do, Korea
BMC Microbiol 8:222. 2008..Here we attempt to discriminate between these possibilities by statistically analysing four protistan inventories obtained using different general eukaryotic PCR primers...
Multigene phylogenies of clonal Spumella-like strains, a cryptic heterotrophic nanoflagellate, isolated from different geographical regionsThorsten Stoeck
School of Biology, University Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schrödinger Str 14, D 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58:716-24. 2008..We confirm the validity of the SSU rDNA Spumella-like phyloclades and support the suggestion that these clades indeed seem to reflect certain ecophysiological adaptations...
Small-subunit rRNA Phylogenies Suggest That Epalxella antiquorum (penard, 1922) corliss, 1960 (ciliophora, odontostomatida) is a member of the plagyopyleaThorsten Stoeck
FB Biologie Abteilung Okologie, Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern, Kaiserlautern D 67663, Germany
J Eukaryot Microbiol 54:436-42. 2007....- Evidence for local ciliate endemism in an alpine anoxic lakeThorsten Stoeck
Universitat Kaiserslautern, FB Biologie, Erwin Schroedinger Str 14, 67633, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Microb Ecol 54:478-86. 2007..As a consequence, we argue that protist species richness can only be reliably accounted for by considering both molecular and morphological data... - Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communitiesThorsten Stoeck
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
BMC Biol 7:72. 2009..We here present a novel, highly conservative bioinformatic analysis pipeline for the processing of large tag sequence data sets... - A molecular approach to identify active microbes in environmental eukaryote clone librariesThorsten Stoeck
School of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Str 14, D 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Microb Ecol 53:328-39. 2007.... - Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic waterThorsten Stoeck
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mol Ecol 19:21-31. 2010.... - Cellular identity of an 18S rRNA gene sequence clade within the class Kinetoplastea: the novel genus Actuariola gen. nov. (Neobodonida) with description of the type species Actuariola framvarensis sp. novThorsten Stoeck
Department of Biology, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schrödinger Str 14, D 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2623-35. 2005..nov., is proposed. Here, we characterize its type species, Actuariola framvarensis sp. nov., and provide an in situ tool to access the organism in nature and study its ecology... - The search finds an end: colpodidiids belong to the Class Nassophorea (ciliophora)Hans Werner Breiner
University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Ecology, D 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
J Eukaryot Microbiol 55:100-2. 2008..Bayesian inference methods and evolutionary distance analyses confirmed the assignment of these taxa to the class Nassophorea... - Microbial eukaryotes in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante deep-sea basinEva Alexander
University of Kaiserslautern, School of Biology, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Environ Microbiol 11:360-81. 2009..The deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the Mediterranean Sea provide an ideal platform to test for this hypothesis and are promising targets for the discovery of undescribed protists with unknown physiological capabilities... - Spatio-temporal variations in protistan communities along an O/HS gradient in the anoxic Framvaren Fjord (Norway)Anke Behnke
Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 72:89-102. 2010.... - Diversity estimates of microeukaryotes below the chemocline of the anoxic Mariager Fjord, DenmarkAlexandra Zuendorf
School of Biology, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 58:476-91. 2006..Assuming eukaryotic evolution under oxygen-depleted conditions, these sequences may represent immediate descendants of early eukaryotic ancestors... - Microeukaryote community patterns along an O2/H2S gradient in a supersulfidic anoxic fjord (Framvaren, Norway)Anke Behnke
Department of Biology, , , D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:3626-36. 2006.... - Sample pooling obscures diversity patterns in intertidal ciliate community composition and structureMatthias Engel
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 79:741-50. 2012..Assuming that the most abundant taxa in an ecosystem under study are also the ones driving ecosystem processes, sample pooling may still be effective for the analyses of ecological key players... - Microbial eukaryote life in the new hypersaline deep-sea basin ThetisAlexandra Stock
Department of Ecology, School of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Strasse 14, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Extremophiles 16:21-34. 2012..This contradicts previous assumptions that such extremely high salt concentrations are anathema to eukaryotic life. The upper salinity limits for eukaryotic life remain unidentified... - Morphology, ultrastructure, molecular phylogeny, and autecology of Euplotes elegans Kahl, 1932 (Hypotrichida; Euplotidae) isolated from the anoxic Mariager Fjord, DenmarkM V Julian Schwarz
TU Kaiserslautern, School of Biology, Erwin Schroedinger Strasse 14, D 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
J Eukaryot Microbiol 54:125-36. 2007..The molecular data cluster E. elegans with Euplotes raikovi, a member of the Euplotopsis group. The data suggest that the E. elegans-E. raikovi clade represents an isolated and deep branch at the base of the Euplotes tree... - Environmental selection of protistan plankton communities in hypersaline anoxic deep-sea basins, Eastern Mediterranean SeaSabine Filker
School of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Str 14, D 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Microbiologyopen 2:54-63. 2013..We identified sodium, magnesium, sulfate, and oxygen playing in concerto as dominant environmental drivers for the structuring of protistan plankton communities in the Eastern Mediterranean DHABs... - Protistan diversity in the Arctic: a case of paleoclimate shaping modern biodiversity?Thorsten Stoeck
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
PLoS ONE 2:e728. 2007..Here we consider the paleoclimate data record, inferring that present-day hot and cold environments should contain, respectively, the largest and the smallest diversity of ancestral lineages of microbial eukaryotes... - Cellular identification of a novel uncultured marine stramenopile (MAST-12 Clade) small-subunit rRNA gene sequence from a norwegian estuary by use of fluorescence in situ hybridization-scanning electron microscopyKarolina Kolodziej
School of Biology, TU Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schroedinger Str 14, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Appl Environ Microbiol 73:2718-26. 2007.... - Depicting more accurate pictures of protistan community complexity using pyrosequencing of hypervariable SSU rRNA gene regionsAnke Behnke
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, D 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Environ Microbiol 13:340-9. 2011.... - A multiple PCR-primer approach to access the microeukaryotic diversity in environmental samplesThorsten Stoeck
Department of Ecology, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Protist 157:31-43. 2006..A single sample appears to contain thousands of largely novel protistan species. Multiple PCR primer combinations may be needed to capture these species... - Congruence and indifference between two molecular markers for understanding oral evolution in the Marynidae sensu lato (Ciliophora, Colpodea)Micah Dunthorn
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Eur J Protistol 48:297-304. 2012..In light of this indifference and an increased amount of nuclear and mitochondrial SSU-rDNA data, alternative hypotheses of oral evolution in the Colpodida are presented... - Comparing the hyper-variable V4 and V9 regions of the small subunit rDNA for assessment of ciliate environmental diversityMicah Dunthorn
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany
J Eukaryot Microbiol 59:185-7. 2012..Thus, studies that use the V4 will estimate similar values of phylotype richness and community structure as would have been estimated using the full-length SSU-rDNA... - JAGUC--a software package for environmental diversity analysesMarkus E Nebel
Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
J Bioinform Comput Biol 9:749-73. 2011..The bottleneck, however, is the computational processing of these massive sequence data, without which, biologists are hardly able to exploit the full information included in these sequence data... - Increasing taxon sampling using both unidentified environmental sequences and identified cultures improves phylogenetic inference in the Prorodontida (Ciliophora, Prostomatea)Zhenzhen Yi
Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Mol Phylogenet Evol 57:937-41. 2010..This approach to increasing taxon sampling using unidentified environmental sequences can be used in other ciliate clades in which there is also low taxon sampling... - Rigidothrix goiseri nov. gen., nov. spec. (Rigidotrichidae nov. fam.), a new "flagship" ciliate from the Niger floodplain breaks the flexibility-dogma in the classification of stichotrichine spirotrichs (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea)Wilhelm Foissner
Universitat Salzburg, FB Organismische Biologie, A 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Eur J Protistol 42:249-67. 2006..gen., the latter comprising Rigidothrix-like stichotrichs with cyrtohymenid oral apparatus. The conspicuous size and shape make R. goiseri a biogeographic flagship likely confined to Africa... - Differential thermal adaptation of clonal strains of a protist morphospecies originating from different climatic zonesJens Boenigk
Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondseestrasse 9, A 5310 Mondsee, Austria
Environ Microbiol 9:593-602. 2007.... - Methodology of protistan discovery: from rRNA detection to quality scanning electron microscope imagesThorsten Stoeck
Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, East Point, Nahant, Massachusetts 01908, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:6856-63. 2003..The new methodology thus opens a way for fine microscopy studies of many organisms previously known exclusively by their 18S rRNA sequences... - Novel eukaryotes from the permanently anoxic Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea)Thorsten Stoeck
Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, Massachusetts 01908, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:5656-63. 2003..These newly discovered protists may retain traits reminiscent of an early eukaryotic ancestor(s)... - Novel eukaryotic lineages inferred from small-subunit rRNA analyses of oxygen-depleted marine environmentsThorsten Stoeck
Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, East Point, Nahant, MA 01908, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 69:2657-63. 2003..This suggests that oxygen-depleted environments harbor diverse communities of novel organisms, which may provide an interesting window into the early evolution of eukaryotes...