To date, numerous cases of HGT have been reported in microbial eukaryotes, particularly phagotrophic microbes [ 3, 5, 70].
Debroas, D. et al. Overview of freshwater microbial eukaryotes diversity: a first analysis of publicly available metabarcoding data.
While the Proterozoic fossil record contains an abundance of organic-walled, often ornamented, microfossils interpreted as eukaryotes, evidence for the origins and diversification of specific lineages of microbial eukaryotes is rare, especially for those groups with few diagnostic morphological characters [ 1].
Like gene-by-gene phylogenetics, phylogenomics must accommodate (stochastic) substitution-rate variation and biases across sites and lineages, incomplete taxon sampling and, especially for prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes, lateral genetic transfer [ 6, 10, 16- 18].
Microbial eukaryotes encompass the majority of eukaryotic evolutionary and cytoskeletal diversity.
In the environment, and particularly in aquatic ecosystems, the diversity and dynamics of microbial eukaryotes are still poorly understood.
Andersson, J. O. Horizontal gene transfer between microbial eukaryotes.
Bacteria, Archaea and microbial eukaryotes dominate ocean ecosystems, composing 90% of marine biomass1.
She studies the origin and diversity of genetic systems in microbial eukaryotes.
Richards, T. A. & Bass, D. Molecular screening of free-living microbial eukaryotes: diversity and distribution using a meta-analysis.
