On Papulifères, putative ciliate cysts of diverse morphologies, with new observations from the plankton of the Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean)

• Published in: Acta Protozoologica
• Main Authors: Dolan, John, R, Yang, Eun Jin, Moon, Jong-Kuk
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Fusopsis; Piropsis; Sphaeropsis; microzooplankton; tintinnids; oligotrichs; [SDV.MP.PRO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Protistology; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; Pimple; Meunier; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-04091393; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-04091393/document; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-04091393/file/Final_PapulifereChukchiSeaActaProtozool.pdf; https://doi.org/10.4467/16890027AP.23.001.17690

International audience In the early 20th century, Alphonse Meunier described "Papulifères" as a group of enigmatic forms of unknown taxonomic affinity characterized by possessing a hyaline pimple, a "papula". In the early 1980's Papulifères were equated with cysts of tintinn...