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Tropical testate amoebae as hydrological indicators?

Sampling testate amoebae in a tropical peatland. A recent paper in Microbial Ecology by Swindles et al. suggests that testate amoebae have good potential as hydrological indicators in tropical peatlands. Testate amoebae have been successfully used as indicators of past changes in peatland hydrology, particularly ombrotrophic (i.e., nutrients derived exclusively from precipitation) peatlands of […]

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50 million-year-old testate amoebae

Testate amoebae have an extraordinarily long fossil record, with the oldest known fossils 750 to 700 million years old (Porter and Knoll, 2000; Bosak et al. 2011; Corsetti et al. 2003); however, knowledge of the evolutionary history of these single-celled organisms is surprisingly spotty. In a recent paper in the journal Protist, Barber et al.