Two New Genera of Planktonic Ciliates and Insights into the Evolution of the Family Strombidiidae (Protista, Ciliophora, Oligotrichia)

• Weiwei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiwei Liu, Zhenzhen Yi

  Affiliations Laboratory of Protozoology, Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Science in Guangdong Higher Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China

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• Zhenzhen Yi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Weiwei Liu, Zhenzhen Yi

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protozoology, Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Science in Guangdong Higher Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Dapeng Xu,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecosphere, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• John C. Clamp,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, North Carolina Central University, Durham, United States of America

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• Jiqiu Li,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protozoology, Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Science in Guangdong Higher Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Xiaofeng Lin ,

  * E-mail: xlin@scnu.edu.cn (XL); wsong@ouc.edu.cn (WS)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protozoology, Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Science in Guangdong Higher Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Weibo Song

  * E-mail: xlin@scnu.edu.cn (XL); wsong@ouc.edu.cn (WS)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Protozoology, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

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