From inside the shell

The recently published database: “Functional traits data for testate amoebae of Northern Holarctic realm” should be a very useful resource...

A new monograph on hyalospheniid testate amoebae by Anush Kosakyan, Ralf Meisterfeld, Enrique Lara, Clément Duckert and Edward A. D....

Two databases of testate amoeba occurrences were recently published by Anatoly Bobrov on the website “Microworld”. The first database is...

Contributed by Matt Amesbury and Alex Whittle (Real!) testate amoeba photos used with the kind permission of Ferry Siemensma, Microworld,...

Contributed by Evelyn Greeves and Richard Payne   Hi, I’m Evelyn Greeves, a second-year biology undergrad at University of York...

Contributed by Edward Mitchell Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland   Vincent Jassey recently reported on tropical testate...

  Living in the tropics, surrounded by jungle-covered hills, corals, picture-perfect beaches and cocktails sounds like a dream. Imagine listening...

Contributed by Anush Kosakyan   It would be hard to find a testate amoeba lover who does not know the...

By Edward A. D. Mitchell, Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland   With the advent of high throughput...

Contributed by Edward A. D. Mitchell Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland   Testate amoebae are well known...

Fashion phenomena strongly influence our societies. These phenomena mostly affect young people and can be very worrysome. Many sociological studies seek...

Contributed by Katarzyna Marcisz   How do testate amoeba communities respond to fire? How does burning affect this group of microorganisms...

Contributed by Daniel Puppe   Silicon is the second most common element in the Earth’s crust (after oxygen) and the...

Contributed by Edward A. D. Mitchell Laboratory of Soil Biology, University of Neuchâtel   “I’m learning to fly but I...

Sampling testate amoebae in a tropical peatland. A recent paper in Microbial Ecology by Swindles et al. suggests that testate...

Imagine, after a long journey, you arrive alone in a hotel. The radio is playing a nice song…   “On...

Now here is something you don’t see everyday. In fact, I am pretty sure this has never been done before. ...

Contributed by Matt Amesbury   The use of testate amoebae as a proxy for past changes in the hydrological status...

Community ecologists study how communities of plants, animals and other organisms vary in space and time, how they interact and...

How do testate amoebae build their tests? How they chose the components to build it? How do they assemble organic...

If you are lucky enough to know a protistologist, you have certainly heard her (or him) utter the statement: “not...

Testate amoebae have an extraordinarily long fossil record, with the oldest known fossils 750 to 700 million years old (Porter...