no problem! it's really cool to know a teacher talking about these topics :)
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no problem! it's really cool to know a teacher talking about these topics :)
awesome! I'd give you a link to my thesis but it's not yet published in a journal 😅 still WIP. but my colleagues began that line of research on testate amoebae a decade ago. for example, in this paper they show how morphology overlaps between genetically distinct species, very similar to my thesis
I actually did my master thesis on how appearance is often completely unreliable when it comes to these amoebae! happy to know my bit of knowledge is being shared. the phenomenon is called "cryptic diversity", where many separate species share the same shell size and shape. happens in animals too
additional specimens would help, especially to confirm the absence of horns and the true shape of its opening (as well as getting its average size). p.s. I'm honored to be considered an 'expert opinion' hehe, that's a first :)
judging by the sphere shape and the opening it definitely looks like a Netzelia, but it's weird that the shell is completely horn-less. there's several Difflugia species with a fully spherical horn-less shell too, such as D. lithoplites and D. globulosa. unfortunately there's a lot of convergence
go ahead, but I must say ID is not my strength – I tend to just sequence their genes to really find out what they are 😅 however I do have several taxonomic keys, and I'm relatively good at guessing higher groupings, so ask away
that's awesome, I'll definitely check out your playlist asap
that's gorgeous! wish I had good equipment to record my microbes
In case some people have missed it, I'm re-posting a link to our paper on the Anaeramoeba-Desulfobacter symbiotic system. This is one of the papers from my lab that I'm most proud of...and a huge amount of the credit goes to @jonhultqvist.bsky.social !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Re: the USA's suppression of research and medical funding:
"progress [...] is not inevitable, it is the result of sustained ongoing open-ended funding and collaboration"
&
"continued progress for human health is not natural. It will result, or fail to result, from human choices"
-John Green
Morphology of Allobodo yubaba n. sp.
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/...
#protistsonsky
This funding gap isn’t distant or only affecting big name universities. We have incredible research happening right here in Maine.
I made the Wikipedia article for telonemids, and while researching them I remember learning about those shared traits with SAR. It was quite unexpected to find that out
Yes, I think Telonemids have hairy flagella iirc, as well as dinoflagellates?
Definitively uninstalled twitter, I hope to find other protistologists here as well ❤️🩹 #protistsonsky
Here are my dear arcellinid amoebae as a treat
If it looks like a dog, walks like a dog and barks like a dog, then it's a dog.
My colleagues recently finished a decade-long project to write this gorgeous monograph (free to read & download online!) on testate amoebae of the family Hyalospheniidae 🦠📖🥳
for those interested, I also manage a wikiproject for protists! anyone's welcome to collaborate
hi and welcome to my profile! I'm a biologist from 🇪🇦, I did my master thesis on testate amoebae, and I am beginning my PhD on more basal protists
my main interest is protists, but I like a few other things – nature, videogames, history, music, drawing, wikipedia – that I might post about sometimes