Zoothamnium mariella sp. nov., a marine, colonial ciliate with an atypcial growth pattern, and its ectosymbiont Candidatus Fusimicrobium zoothamnicola gen. nov., sp. nov.

• Vincent Kendlbacher ,

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

  * E-mail: vincent.kendlbacher@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6817-0928

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• Teresa Maria Rosa Winter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Monika Bright

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vincent.kendlbacher@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7066-1363

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