Ecological and evolutionary patterns in the enigmatic protist genus Percolomonas (Heterolobosea; Discoba) from diverse habitats

• Denis V. Tikhonenkov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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• Soo Hwan Jhin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do Island and Kyungpook Institute of Oceanography, School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

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• Yana Eglit,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Kai Miller,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• Andrey Plotnikov,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Shared Scientific Equipment “Persistence of Microorganisms”, Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis UB RAS, Orenburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6830-4068

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• Alastair G. B. Simpson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Diversity, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jong Soo Park

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jongsoopark@knu.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Oceanography, Research Institute for Dok-do and Ulleung-do Island and Kyungpook Institute of Oceanography, School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6253-5199

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