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Aug 2026
Discovering 25 novel phyla that fill gaps in the eukaryotic tree of life
Protists play important roles in food chains and symbioses in soil and aquatic environments, displaying an enormous morphological and functional diversity1,2. While most commonly found protist species are well known to science, our global-scale environmental DNA survey across soil, water, and sediments reveals dozens o...
L. Tedersoo, V. Mikryukov, S. Sildever et al.
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