ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2022
How Ciliated Protists Survive by Cysts: Some Key Points During Encystment and Excystment.
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- A secreted alpha-amylase effectively induces reproductive cyst formation both within and across Colpoda species, key soil-dwelling protists.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- Probing the genomic and proteomic basis of encystment inmSystems · 2026Article
- True cyst formation underlies persistence and drug tolerance in Tritrichomonas foetus.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Succession of micro-food webs and their role in lignocellulose degradation during pepper stalk composting.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Salinity Negatively Impacts Protistan and Fungal Community Stability and Shapes Assembly Processes in Freshwater Ecosystems.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Characterization of cellular wound resistance in the giant ciliatebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Effects of Geosmin on the Behavior of Soil Protists.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Encystment and Excystment Processes inPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Salinity tolerance in resting cysts of colpodid ciliates: Comparative transcriptomics analysis and chemical analysis of cyst walls to investigate their tolerance capability.Current research in microbial sciences · 2025Article
- The impact of temperature and sediment resuspension on microbial eukaryote recruitment from shallow Baltic Sea sediment.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Dynamic DNAGenome research · 2024Article
- Decryption of the survival "black box": gene family expansion promotes the encystment in ciliated protists.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Life Cycle Plasticity of Colpoda aspera Fed With Petroleum Tolerant Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria.The Journal of eukaryotic microbiologyArticle
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Forming cysts is a common and important bionomic strategy for microorganisms to persist in harsh environments. In ciliated protists, many species have been reported to form cysts when facing unfavorable conditions. Despite traditional studies on the morphological features of cysts and the chemical composition of cyst wall, recent research has focused more on the molecular mechanisms of encystment. The present work reviews studies on developmental features and molecular information of resting cysts in ciliates, and pays more attention to the following questions: what are the inducing factors of encystment and excystment? How does the cell change morphologically during these dynamic processes? And what molecular mechanisms underlie those changes? We also present and summarize the characteristics of cysts from diverse ciliate lineages in a phylogenetic framework, aiming to provide new perspectives for studies on adaptive evolution of unicellular eukaryotes.
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