This work proposes formal names for 150 species to phylum-level taxa from 25 deep lineages based on eDNA and rRNA gene long-read sequence information and reveals dozens of novel, phylum-level phylogenetic lineages that remain to be characterized for basic morphology and function.
Abstract
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 of novel, phylum-level phylogenetic lineages that remain to be characterized for basic morphology and function. A vast majority of these undescribed taxa occur in marine water and sediments, but some are common in soil. Most of these novel taxa have distinct substrate and habitat preferences and biogeographic patterns. To accord these lineages scientific agency and enable unambiguous scientific communication, we propose formal names for 150 species to phylum-level taxa from 25 deep lineages based on eDNA and rRNA gene long-read sequence information.
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