WikiProject Protista

Online collaborative effort for expanding the publicly available knowledge of protists 🦠 on Wikipedia | account managed by @willogeny

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WikiProject Protista is the newest project in the biology-related side of @Wikipedia. We collaborate in creating & editing articles for protists 🦠, which are all eukaryotes except animals 🐀, plants 🌿 and fungi 🍄. Any help is welcome! https://t.co/YYGNTrkXAg

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New article "Barthelona", an anaerobic #flagellate genus of the phylum Metamonada, with only one described species
https://t.co/ICTwJHt7OR

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New article "Skoliomonas", a halophilic #flagellate of the phylum Metamonada found in alkaline lakes around the world, with only one species that was described this month
https://t.co/fbkJs8lzju

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New article "Padaungiella", a genus of #TestateAmoebae with shells that have very long necks, named after a Tibeto-Burmese tribe
https://t.co/c4zmD600ao

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Incapable of photosynthesis, most katablepharids survive by eating other eukaryotes. However, some have evolved the ability to steal chloroplasts from algae and temporarily use them for photosynthesis (📷: Noriko Okamoto et al. 2006)

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Katablepharid has just been promoted to #GoodArticle status! Katablepharids are a small group of unicellular beings closely related to cryptophyte algae. https://t.co/G9nmCndtoU

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New article: "Moyeria", a fossil euglenid from Ordovician and Silurian rocks. https://t.co/RMgy9yOkPO

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The existence of this clade (also called Apicomonada) points toward an ancestor of Apicomplexa that was more similar to these free-living algae. The same ancestor gave rise to the #dinoflagellates, a highly diverse group of algae (📷: @Sergiophyceae & @cslamo, 2017)

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The latest protist Wikipedia page promoted to Good Article status is "chrompodellid". This tiny clade of unicellular flagellates has a peculiar position on the tree of life as the closest living relatives of #Apicomplexa, which are intracellular parasites.
https://t.co/GAiiitoGhc

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The name "chrompodellid" derives from two groups discovered and studied independently: colpodellids, which are phagotrophic predators, and the chromerid algae with functioning chloroplasts. Later they were proven to be the same clade, here shown in green (📷: Tomčala et al. 2020)