ABSTRACTS FROM SECTION MEETINGS 1998

(also available 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)


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The Society of Protozoologists

51st Annual Meeting
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Az., August 1-8, 1998


Cushion, M. T.   Hutner Award Lecture Living and Dying in Lung Alveoli: Dynamics of Interactions Among Genetically Defined Populations of Pneumocystis

Finlay, B. J.   Vice-President Lecture Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Function

Prescott, D. M.   Past-President (1995) Lecture The DNA of Hypotrichs: New Principles of Genomic Flexibility

Symposium "Recent Developments in Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Evolution"
organised by J. D. Berger and S. M. Adl

McFadden, G. I.   Secondary Endosymbiosis: an Engine of Eukaryotic Diversity

Lang, B. F., Gray, M. W., O'Kelly, C. J. & Burger, G.   A Comparative Genomics Approach to the Evolution of Mitochondria

Cavalier-Smith, T.   Euglenoid and Dinoflagellate Chloroplast Origins and the Eukaryote Family Tree

Palmer, J. D., Turner, S. & Pryer, K.   Cyanobacterial Origin of Chloroplasts: Once or More than Once?

Blanchard, J. L. & Hicks, J.   The Apicomplexan Plastid is not Derived from within the Chlorophycean/Charophycean Green Plastid Lineage

Symposium "Feeding Ecology of Heterotrophic and Mixotrophic Dinoflagellates"
organised by Wayne Coats

Jacobson, D. M.   Investigations of Feeding in Dinoflagellates: A Brief History

Stoecker, D. K.   Mixotrophy Among Dinoflagellates

Jeong, H. J.   The Ecological Roles of Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates in Marine Planktonic Community

Hansen, P. J. & Calado, A.   Phagotrophic Mechanisms and Prey Selection in Dinoflagellates

Coats, D. W.   Parasitic Life Styles of Marine Dinoflagellates

Poster

Yarlett, N. & Martinez, M. P.   Trichomonas vaginalis is a Polyamine Auxotroph

Pennock, D. G., Xu, W., Iannotti, C., Mobberley, P., Angus, S., Suk, W., Zimmerman, J., & Bernard, A.   The Dynein Heavy Chain Gene Family in Tetrahymena thermophila

McCutcheon, S. M., Maciejewski, J. J., McLaughlin, N. B. & Buhse, H. E. Jr.   Characterization and Organization of Vorticella convallaria Genomic DNA

Esteban, G. F., Finlay, B. J., Olmo, J. L. & Tyler, P. A.   Lembadion curvatum: A Large, Benthic, New Ciliate?

Anderson, O. R., Bergen, A., Maglione, M. & Levandowsky, M.   Effects of Oil Pollution on the Abundance of Gymnamoebae in Coastal Estuarine Sediments

Echeverria, D. D. & Conforti, V.   Euglenoid Flagellates Present in the Gut of Microhylid Tadpoles of Argentina

Asai, H., Sugihara, T., Shibahara, S., Takagi, T. & Ishura, M.   Genomic Structures of Carchesium Ca2+-Binding Proteins (18 kDA Spasmin and Its Isoforms)

Clamp, J. C.   Life Cycle Patterns in Planktonic Vorticellid Peritrichs (Ciliophora: Oligohymenophora)

Clamp, J. C.   Do Sessiline Peritrichs Comprise Two Higher-Order Taxa with Fundamentally Different Oral Structure?

Munson, D.   Incidence of Cyst Forming Gymnamoebae in Sediments from Ecuador

Ragan, M. A., Embley, J. M., Dyal, P., Hirt, R., Horner, D. & Murphy, C. A.   The first 1000 Expressed Sequence Tagged Genes (ESTs) from the Diplomonad Spironucleus barkhanus ATCC 50380

Chung, D.-I., Yu, H.-S., Hwang, M.-Y., Kim, T.-H., Yun, H.-C. & Kong, H.-H. & Murphy, C. A.   Subgenus Classification of Acanthamoeba by Riboprinting

Oral Presentations

ECOLOGY

Adl, M. S. & Berger, J. D.   Ecology of a Stichotrich Ciliate in Fluctuating Environment: Studies in a Materially-Closed Ecosystem

Grim, J. N.   Evidence for Opportunistic Feeding and Other Aspects of Nutrition in the Ciliate Balantidium jocularum

Smalley, G. W., Coats D. W. & Stoecker, D. K.   Influence of Light on Feeding by the Mixotrophic Dinoflagellate Ceratium furca

Skovgaard, A., Hansen, P. J. & Stoecker, D. K.   Photosynthesis in the Mixotrophic Dinoflagellate Fragilidum subglobosum Under Different Growth Conditions

Moss, A. G., Morgan, D. D. & Estes, A. M.   Ciliary Ecology: Epibionts of Giant Ciliary Comb Plates of the Gulf Ctenophore Mnemiopsis mccraydii (Ctenophora)

Bright M., Ott N. & Ott J. A.   Live Fast - Die Young: A Symbiosis Between a Marine Colonial Ciliate and Thiotrophic Bacteria

Gunderson, J., Goss, S. & Coats, D. W.   Hybridization Probes for the In Situ Detection of Amoebophrya sp. in Gymnodinium sanguineum

Buck, K. R., Barry, J. P. & Bernhard, J. M.   Protistan in Fauna from Deep-Sea Sites in Monterey Bay, CA.

Bamforth, S. S.   Phylogenetic Implications on Nebula Species in the Antarctic Floral Biome

EVOLUTION AND PHYLOGENY

Corliss, J. O.   Megasystematics and Phylogenetics of the Protists Revisited: Grades, Clades, One or Several Kingdoms?

Wright, A.-D. G., Cameron, S., Clark, C. G. & Lynn, D. H.   Diversity and Evolution of the Endosymbiotic Ciliates of Vertebrate Animals Inferred from SSrRNA Gene Sequences

Bhattacharya D. & Besendahl A.   Evolution of the Plastid tRNA(Leu) Group I Intron

Cavalier-Smith, T. & Chao, E. E.   Hyperamoeba rRNA Phylogeny and the Classification of the Phylum Amoebozoa

Canning, E. U., Curry, A., Cheney, S. A., Lafrachi-Tristem, N. J. & Ishihara, R.   What is Nosema Bombycis? Observations Based on Nosema spp. Parasitic in Cinnabar Moth, Tyria jacobaeae

Zhu, G. & Keithly, J. S.   What is Cryptosporidium?

Blessin, C. E. & Keithly, J. S.   Is Cryptosporidium a Pre-Mitochondrial Apicomplexan?

Anderson, C. L., Okamura, B. & Canning, E. U.   Sequence Evolution in Phylum Myxozoa

Cheney, S. A., Lafrachi-Tristem, N. J. & Canning, E. U.   Comparison of Ribosomal DNA Sequence of Trachipleistophora hominis with Similar Microsporidia: Implications for Systematics

PARASITOLOGY

Booton, G. C., Dykova, I., Lom, J., Schroeder-Diedrich, J. M. & Byers, T. J.   Morphological and rDNA Similarities of Acanthamoeba Strains Parasitic in Fish and those Causing Human Disease

Chen, W.-J., Fan-Chiang, M.-H., Hsu, C.-H. & Tseng, C.-W.   Beta-Actin Expression in Migrating Trophozoites of Ascogregarina taiwanensis (Apicomplexa: Lecudinidae)

Sundermann, C. A. & Estridge, B. H.   Growth Rates of and Competition Between Two Closely-related Coccidia

Kuperman, B. I., Matey, V. E., & Barlow, S. B.   Ectocommensal and Parasitic Protozoans on Fish, Polychaetes, and Crustaceans from the Salton Sea

Kaneshiro, E. S., Sul, D., Cushion, M. T., Collins, M., & Hazra, B.   Effects of Naphthoquinones on Pneumocystis carinii ATP Content and Ubiquinone Biosynthesis

MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY

Janetopoulos, C. & Aufderheide, K. J.   The Conjusome: A Novel Organelle Found Only During Tetrahymena Sexual Reorganization

Tieche, J. A.   Morphological Divergence in Contractile, Colonial Peritrichs

Strueder-Kypke, M. C., Wright, A.-D. G., Fokin, S. & Lynn, D. H.   Phylogenetic Relationships of Peniculine Ciliates, Paramecium spp. and Lembadion bullinum, Inferred from 18S rRNA Sequences

Antipa, C. A. & Chang, E.   Morphogenesis of the Thigmotactic Field as Seen by Electron Microscopy

Ruffolo, J. J.   Euplotes Motility: How Do Multiple Cilia of a Cirrus Work as a Unit?

BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Gast, R. J. & Caron, D. A.   Reverse Dot Blot Detection of Acanthamoebae and Application of the Method to Environmental Samples

Amit, Z., Baughman, R. P. & Kaneshiro, E. S.   The Occuerrence of Pneumocysterol in Human Samples

Chin, K. & Kaneshiro, E. S.,   CIS-9,10-Epoxystearic Acid is Restricted to Phosphatidylethanolamine in the Opportunistic Pathogen Pneumocystis carinii

Bacchi, C. J., Goldberg, B., Chin, K., & Kaneshiro, E. S.   Incorporation of [14CH3] from Methionine into the Lipids of Procyclic Trypanosoma brucei spp.

Lindmark, D. G., Billetz, A. C., Dietrich, B. H., van Keulen, H. & Yarlett, N.   Hexamita inflata: the Arginine Dihydrolase Pathway and Other Selected Enzyme Activities

Cross, D. S. & Zalitis, J. G.   Interaction of Fuels in Diplomonads, Giardia and Hexamita on Growth and Glycogen Levels

Zackroff, R. V. & Hufnagel, L. A.   Latrunculin A Inhibits Ciliate Contraction and Phagocystosis

DeBaufer, P. J. & Buhse Jr., H. E.   A Possible Mechanism for Initiating Stalked Zooid to Telotroch Transformation in Vorticella

Maselli, A. G. & Fechheimer, M.   Laminated Actin Inclusions in Dictyostelium Expressing an Unregulated Fragment of the 34kDA Actin Binding Protein

Zhang, H., Adl, S. & Berger, J.   Evolutionary Conservation of CDK-Cyclin in Ciliates

Hamilton, E., Merriam, V. & Orias, E.   Genetically Distinguishing RAPD DNA Polymorphisms Determined by Mic-Limited or Mac-Destined Sequences in Tetrahymena

Straus, J. W.   Zymographic Analysis Reveals Protease Diversity Among Species of Tetrahymena

Smith-Somerville, H. E., Hardman, J. K., Ray, W. J., Timkovich, R., Ryals, P. E., Nabazas, S. H. & Buhse, H. E., Jr.   A Metal Complex Containing Hypoxanthine and Uracil Induces Differentiation in Tetrahymena vorax

Kono, R. I., Okamoto, H. & Asai, H.   Chemical Modification of Methionine and Tryptophan Residues in Zoothamnium spasmoneme and Its Ca2+-Induced Tension

 

German Section Society of Protozoologists

17th Annual Meeting
March 4-7, 1998


Berger, H., Foissner, W. & Schaumburg, J.   Taxonomy of Plankton Ciliates: a Neglected Field

Brenner, J., Hehl, J., Simon, N., Medlin, L. K. & Goertz, H.-D.   Detection of Dinoflagellates in Toxic Algal Blooms with Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridisation (FISH)

Brigge, T., Biegger, D., Ehrsam, E., Lehmann, H. & Goertz, H.-D.   Molecular and Cytochemical Characterization of the Holospora Infection in Paramecium caudatum

Brigge, T. & Goertz, H.-D.   Telomerase RNA of Paramecium caudatum

Brigge, T., Fokin, S., Bruemmer, F. & Goertz, H.-D.   Molecular Probes for Localization of Endosymblotic Bacteria in Ciliates and Toxic Dinoflagellates

Brümmer, F., Nickel, M., Jaiani, E., Platt-Rohloff, L., Elbrächter, M. & Goertz, H.-D.   Interactions Between Ciliates and Toxic Dinoflagellates

Dettmering, C. & Röttger, R.   Schizogony of Amphistegina gibbosa (Larger Foraminifera)

Foissner, W. & Berger, H.   Morphological Characterization of Two nomen nudum Hypotrichs (Protozoa, Ciliophora): Oxytricha nova and Oxytricha trifallax

Fokin, S., Brigge, T. & Goertz, H.-D.   An Infectious Bacterium Inhabiting the Macronucleus of Paramecium putrinum

Freiberger, N. & Hemmersbach, R.   Influence of Temperature on the Graviresponses of Protists

Gavrilova-Ruch, O., Tairbekov, M. & Hemmersbach, R.   Influence of Accelerations (2xg, 5xg) on Growth Dynamics of Ciliate Cultures (Loxodes striatus, Bursaria truncatella, Dileptus anser)

Hein, T., Heiler, G., Holarek, C., Paumann, R. & Schiemer, F.   Structure and Dynamics of the Planktonic Community in Two Floodplain Sections of the Danube Related to the Degree of Hydrological Connectivity

Hemmersbach, R., Wilczek, M., Ivanova, K., Bromeis, B. & Stockem, W.   Influence of Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Paramecium biaurelia

Kuhlmann, H.-W. & Selbach, M.   Vertical and Horizontal Migrations in Histophagous Ciliates

Radek, R.   Nephridiophaga blattellae (Nephridiophagidae, Sprague 1970), a Sporeforming Protist in the Malpighian Tubules of the German Cockroach Blattella germanica

Radina, M. & Krüppel, T.  Patch Clamp Analysis of Single Ion Channels in the Marine Ciliate Euplotes vannus

Schönborn, W., Dörfelt, H., Foissner, W., Krienitz, L. & Schäfer, U.   Triassic, Soft-Bodied Amber Protists

Schweikert, M. & Elbraechter, M.   A New Form of Endosymbiosis in Podolampas bipes Stein (Dinophyceae)

Selbach M. & Kuhlmann, H.-W.   The Phototactic Ciliate Chlamydodon mnemosyne Shows a Rapidly Fading Autofluorescence in the Stigma Overlying Area of its Plasma Membrane

Tesarova, P. & Foissner, W.   New Observations on the Extrusomes of Pseudourostyla cristata (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

Wörner, U., Zimmermann, H. & Kausch, H.   Succession of Protists on Laboratory-Made Aggregates

 

Groupement des Protistologues de Langue Française (GPLF)

36th Annual Meeting
May 21-25, 1998


Amigó, J. M., Salvadó, H. & Maíllo, P. A.   Influence of Host Size and Sex on the Prevalence of the Microsporidian Parasite Microgemma ovoidea (Thèl. 1895) Amigó et al. 1996

Ausseil, J., Soyer-Gobillard, M.-O., Géraud, M.-L., Bhaud, Y., Albert, M., Baines, I. C. & Moreau, H.   An Original 75 kDa Protein in Dinoflagellates: Cloning, Sequencing of the Gene and Immunolocalization

Bergogne, L., Roux, C., Livage, J., Desportes-Livage, I. & Correia da Costa, J. M.   Encapsulation of Leishmania within Sol-Gel Glass

Bogaerts, P., Twagilimana, L., Bohatier, J., Bonnemoy, F. & Tixier, C.   Microbiotests for Assessing Toxicity of Pesticides

Bricheux, G., Giraud, E. & Coffe, G.   Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Actin from Euglena acus

Brugerolle, G.   Identification and Ultrastructure Study of the Symbiotic Flagellates of Porotermes adamsoni from Australia

Corbier, F., Pomport-Castillon, C., Gauthier, P., Gasc, C., Roch, P. & Romestand, B.   Perkinsus marinus Proteases Purification and Potential Role in Host/Parasite Relationships

Coste, F. & Bouix, G.   Two Hyperparasitic Microsporidia of Both Trematods and Copepods of Teleosts Fishes

El Fakhry, Y., Achbarou, A., Franetich, J.-F., Desportes-Livage, I. & Mazier, D.   Disseminated Infection of Interferon Gamma Receptor Knockout Mice with Encephalitozoon intestinalis, a Microsporidian Species Pathogenic in Immunocompromised Man

Gbankoto, A., Sakiti, N. & Marques, A.   Occurrence of a Pathology Linked to MyxobolUs dahomeyensis (Siau 1971), a Myxosporean Parasite of Wild and Culture Tilapia Ovaries in Benin

Labaied, M., Coste, F., Bahri, S., Marques, A., Bouix, G. & Ben Hassine, O. K.   Preliminary Work on Striped Red Mullet Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus,1758 Microsporidiosis from Tunisian Coasts

Majed, M., Coste, F., Marques, A., Bouix, G. & Ben Hassine, O. K.   Preliminary Observations on Glugea anomala (Moniez,1887) (Glugea atherinae, Berrebi 1979) a Microsporidian Parasite of the Sand Smelt Atherina boyeri, Risso 1810 in the Tunisian Inshore Area

Pampoulie, C., Marques, A., Rosecchi, E., Crivelli, A. J. & Bouchereau, J.-L.   First Observation of Kudoa sp. on a Migratory Mediterranean Goby, Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) in the Rhône Delta, France

Pomport-Castillon, C., Corbier, F., Gauthier, P., Gasc, C., Noguier, G., Othily, R., Renaud, T., Roch, P. & Romestand, B.   Production and Characterisation of Monoclonal Antibodies of Perkinsus marinus (Protozoa-Perkinsidae) Parasite of the Oyster Crassostrea virginica: Immunodiagnostics Potentialities

Pomport-Castillon, C., Coste, F., Romestand, B. & Bioux, G.   The Glugea Complex in the Languedocian Brackish Lagoons: a Multidimensional Study model of Fish Microsporidia

Pratlong, F.   Application of iIsoenzymatic Characterization to the Study of Leishmaniasis Endemic Foci

Ribes, T., Salvadó, H. & Gracia, M. P.   Epiphytic Foraminifera from Leaves and Rhizomes of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delille

Sakiti, N., Kabre, G., Marques, A. & Dossou, C.   Gill Diseases Caused by Myxozoa in Fishes of Inland Waters of the South of Benin

Salvadó, H., Amigó, J. M. & Gracia, M. P.   Effect of Bulking-Control Chlorination on Ciliated Communities of Activated Sludge

Sibille, I., Sime-Ngando, T., Mathieu, L., Block, J. C. & Hartemann, P.   Protozoan Bacterivory and Biological Stability in Drinking Water Distribution System

Sparagano, O. A. E.   Protozoology and Veterinary Sciences in Africa

Vivares, C. P.   On the Genome of Microsporidia

 

Scandinavian Section Society of Protozoologists

20th Annual Meeting
April 7, 1998


Christensen, S. T. & Leick, V.   Characterization of Receptors and Tyrosine Kinase Activity in Signal Transduction in Tetrahymena thermophila

Dybvad, J., Jørgensen, T. J. D. & Rasmussen, L.   Polypropylene Glycol, Polyethylene Glycol, Polyvinyl Alcohol, or Methyl Cellulose Activate Single Tetrahymena thermophila Cells to Proliferate

Eklund, F. & Rønn, R.   The Most Probable Number Method for Enumeration of Protozoa in Soil. As Bad as Its Reputation?

Fenchel, T. & Glud, R. N.   Protozoan Motility Affects Solute Transport in Sediments

Larsson, J. I. R.   Microsporidian Parasites of Protozoa

Moestrup, Ø.   Flagellar Replication in Flagellates

Nilsson, J. R.   On the Effect of Vanadate on Tetrahymena

 

Israeli Section Society of Protozoologists

10th Annual Meeting
May 21, 1998
Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bet Dagan, Israel


Adini, I, Ephoros, M. & Jaffe, C. L.   Prevalence of Visceral Leishmaniasis in Northern Israel

Amin-Spector, S., Barak, E., Saar, Y. & Zilberstein, D.   Assessment of Cell Cycle Regulation of Leishmania Differentiation

Baneth, G. & Jaffe, C. L.   Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Comparative Study

Baneth, G., Shkap, V., Samish, M. & Jaffe, C. L.   Hepatozoon canis: A Method for Isolation of Gametocytes from Parasitized Neutrophils and its Application for Antigenic Profiling by Western Blotting

Bin, H., Shkap, V., Savitzki, I. & Fish, L.   Seroprevalence of Neosporosis in Israel During the Year 1997

Bracha, R., Nuchamowitz, Y., Ankri, S. & Mirelman, D.   Down Regulation of Gene Expression in Entamoeba histolytica by Antisense RNA: Effects of Regulating Elements

Croft, S. L., Yardley, V. & Rock, P.   Recent Studies on Lipid Amphotericin B Formulations and Phospholipid Derivatives for Leishmaniasis and Trypanosomiasis

Dudi, A., Talis, B., Zilberstein, H. & Zur, S.   Serodiagnosis in Ambulatory Ameobiasis

Eisenberger, C. L. & Jaffe, C. L.   Identification of Old World Leishmania Species Using a Permissively Primed Intergenic Polymorphic - Polymerase Chain Reaction

Garlapati, S., Gilad, Y., Zilka, A. & Shapira, M.   Mapping Elements of RNA Stability in hsp83

Gilad, Y., Garlapati, S. & Shapira, M.   Autoregulation of the alpha- and beta-Tubulin Genes in Leishmania

Golenser, J., Domb, A., Frankenburg, S., Ehrenfreund, T., Rock, P., Yardley, V. & Croft, S.   A New Treatment of Leishmaniasis Using Amphotericin B-Arabinogalactan (AmB-AG) Conjugates

Levitan, A., Michaeli, S., Bracha, R. & Mirelman, D.   Post-transcriptional Control of the Two Ribosomal Protein L-21 Genes of Entamoeba histolytica

Schwarzfuchs, N., Schlesinger, P. & Pollack, Y.   Elevated Level of pfmdr2 Confers Heavy Metal Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

Shkap, V., Pipano, E., Savitsky, I., Frank, M., Fish, L., Leibovitz, B. & Krigel, Y.   Theileria annulata: Proteolytic Enzyme Activity of Culture-Grown Schizonts

 

Czech Section Society of Protozoologists

28th Annual Meeting
May 4-7, 1998
Uhelna, Czech Republic


Hrdá, S., Votypka, J. & Flegr, J.   Intraspecies and Interspecies Polymorphism of Genus Frenkelia

Hrdy, I., Tomková, E., Tachezy, J., Rasoloson, D., Cammack, R. & Kulda, J.   Alternative Pathway of Metronidazole Activation in Trichomonas vaginalis

Hylis, M., Vávra, J., Maddox, J. V., McManus, M. L. & Weiser, J.   Characterisation of Three Microsporidian Isolates from the Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar L.): Their Developmental Cycle and Tissue Specificity

Kisidayová, S.   Cultivation of Rumen Ciliate Entodinium caudatum in Chemically Defined Conditions

Koudela, B. & Modry, D.   Extraintestinal Stages of Coccidia in Liver of Schneider's Skink Eumeces schneideri (Sauria: Scincidae) from Northern Egypt

Macek, M.   Distribution of Ciliates in European Lakes Above the Timber Line

Nohynková, E. & Kulda, J.   Giardia intestinalis: Effect of Albendazole on Cytoskeletal Systems

Sádlová, J., Svobodová, M., Votypka, J. & Volf, P.   Virulence Factors in Leishmania major Strains Differing in Development in Sandflies and Mice

Suchan, P., Petrák, J., Vyoral, D., Kulda, J. & Tachezy, J.   Subcellular Localization of Iron Incorporated Into Tritrichomonas foetus

Svobodová, M., Sádlová, J., Votypka, J. & Volf, P.   Changes in Virulence and Infectivity of Leishmania major After Passages in Vectors and Mice

Tesarová, P., Volf, P. & Nohynková, E.   Sandfly Salivary Glands: Characterization of Protein Components and the Enhancing Effect on Leishmania major Infections

 

Italian Section Society of Protozoologists

19th Annual Meeting
October 27-28, 1998
Rome, Italy


Barbanera, F., Erra, F. & Ricci, N.   Environmental Microgradients in Ciliates: from Neutral to Adaptive Behavior

Bertaggia, D., Kraev, A., Santovito, G. & Piccinni, E.   Molecular Cloning and Expression of Cd-MT Gene in Tetrahymena pyriformis

Bongiorni, L.   Seasonal Changes and Species Assemblage of a Mediterranean Thraustochytrid Community

Botto, M., Santovito, G., Irato, P. & Piccinni, E.   Interaction of Metals and MT expression in Tetrahymena pigmentosa

Del Negro, P., Crevatin, E., Bertolini, A., Ramani, P. & Fonda Umani, S.   Annual Variation in the Abundance of Planktonic Nanoprotists in a Coastal Station of the Gulf of Trieste

Di Muccio, T., Frusteri, L., Maroli, M., Gramiccia, M. & Marinucci, M.   Population Structure Analysis of Leishmania infantum Vector Phlebotomus perniciosus in the Mediterranean Area

Ghessa, M. G., Tiano, L., Carrara, S., Tagliafiero, G. & Delmonte Corrado, M. U.   Macronuclear Chromatin Structure Dynamics in Colpoda inflata Resting Encystment, Evaluated by Image Analysis

Largana, I., Ghessa, M. G., Rosati, G., Politi, H., Angelini, C. & Delmonte Corrado, M. U.   Cytochemical and Electrophoretic Study of the Resting Cyst Wall in Colpoda variabilis

Ludovisi, A. & Gramiccia, M.   Application of PCR Assay for the Diagnosis of Human Leishmaniasis in Italy

Mori, G. & Ricci, N.   A Behavioural Bioassay Employing Euplotes crassus for Detection of Sublethal Effects: the Role of the "Slow and Fast" Rhythms of Creeping

Petroni, G., Rosati, G., Quochi, S., Modeo, L. & Verni, F.   Epixenosomes Defend Euplotidium itoi Against Predation: Involvement of the Ejecting Process

Pighini, M.   Biogeography of Caulerpa taxifolia (Chlorophyta) Based on Comparisons of Nuclear rDNA ITS Sequences

Pizzi, E. & Frontali, C.   Molecular Evolution of Coding and Non-coding Regions in Plasmodium

Politi, H., Delmonte Corrado, M. U., Falugi, C. & Miceli, C.   Cloning of the Gene Encoding a Protein Homologous to Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in Paramecium primaurelia

Ramoino, P., Fato, M., Diaspro, A., Beltrame, F. & Robello, M.   Temperature Effect on the Endoplasmic Reticulum Structure of Paramecium primaurelia as Revealed by Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy

Rappelli, P., Addis, M. F., Carta, F. & Fiori, P. L.   Association of Trichomonas vaginalis with Mycoplasma hominis

Ricci, N.   The Locomotion of the Protozoa: Comparative Speculations

Ricci, N., Erra, F. & Banchetti, R.   The Doublets of Oxytricha bifaria: Biological Errors or Adaptive Differentiations? The Ethological Contribution

Savoia, D., Bosio, K., Avanzini, C., Colombatto, S. & Zucca, M.   In vitro Activity of Different Substances on the Growth of Leishmania major

Severini, C., Menegon, M., Baldari, M., Romi, R. & Gradoni, L.   Molecular Investigation on the Autochthonus Plasmodium vivax Malaria Case Occurred in Grosseto Province (Italy)

Tamburrini, A. & Pozio, E.   Recovery of Infectious Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts from Artificial Sea Water and Experimentally Infected Mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis)

Trielli, F., Viarengo, A., Dini, F., Delmonte Corrado, M. U., Pietra, F., Guella, G., Marchi, B. & Burlando, B.   Cytotoxic Effects of Euplotins on Different Marine Ciliates

Troiani, M., Ludovisi, A. & Gramiccia, M.   Genetic Polymorphism of Leishmania infantum from HIV Positive Patients in Italy: an Update