The insights into the systematic relationship of Gastrostyla-affinitive genera, with report on a new saline soil ciliate genus and new species (Protozoa, Ciliophora).
Xiaoteng LuYuanyuan WangSaleh A Al-FarrajHamed El-SerehyJie HuangChen ShaoPublished in: BMC evolutionary biology (2020)
Similar to the CEUU-hypothesis about convergent evolution of urostylids and uroleptids, we speculate that the shared ventral cirral patterns of Gastrostyla-like taxa might have resulted from convergent evolution.
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