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Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists
Marine protists are a polyphyletic group of organisms playing major roles in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the oceans, including performing much of Earth’s photosynthesis and driving the carbon, nitrogen, and silicon cycles. In addition, marine protists occupy key positions in the tree of life,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31084566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-11-0724 |
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description | Marine protists are a polyphyletic group of organisms playing major roles in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the oceans, including performing much of Earth’s photosynthesis and driving the carbon, nitrogen, and silicon cycles. In addition, marine protists occupy key positions in the tree of life, including as the closest relatives of metazoans. Despite all the reasons to better understand them, knowledge of the cell biology of most marine protist lineages is sparse. This is beginning to change thanks to vibrant growth in the development of new model organisms. Here, we survey some recent advances in studying the cell biology of marine protists toward understanding the functional basis of their unique features, gaining new perspectives on universal eukaryotic biology, and for understanding homologous biology within metazoans and the evolution of metazoan traits. |
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spelling | pubmed-67246032019-09-06 Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists Collier, Jackie L. Rest, Joshua S. Mol Biol Cell Perspectives Marine protists are a polyphyletic group of organisms playing major roles in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the oceans, including performing much of Earth’s photosynthesis and driving the carbon, nitrogen, and silicon cycles. In addition, marine protists occupy key positions in the tree of life, including as the closest relatives of metazoans. Despite all the reasons to better understand them, knowledge of the cell biology of most marine protist lineages is sparse. This is beginning to change thanks to vibrant growth in the development of new model organisms. Here, we survey some recent advances in studying the cell biology of marine protists toward understanding the functional basis of their unique features, gaining new perspectives on universal eukaryotic biology, and for understanding homologous biology within metazoans and the evolution of metazoan traits. The American Society for Cell Biology 2019-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6724603/ /pubmed/31084566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-11-0724 Text en © 2019 Collier and Rest. “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License. |
spellingShingle | Perspectives Collier, Jackie L. Rest, Joshua S. Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title | Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title_full | Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title_fullStr | Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title_full_unstemmed | Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title_short | Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
title_sort | swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists |
topic | Perspectives |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31084566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-11-0724 |
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