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ReviewMicroorganisms2025

Protists with Uncertain Phylogenetic Affiliations for Resolving the Deep Tree of Eukaryotes.

Euki Yazaki, Takashi Shiratori, Yuji Inagaki

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Review in Microorganisms, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Euki YazakiResearch Center for Advanced Analysis, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba 305-0856, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-4962-3340
Takashi ShiratoriInstitute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Ibaraki, Japan.
Yuji InagakiCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0101-8483

Funding

Institute for Fermentation, Osaka (IFO) Y-2024-1-001the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 23K27226, BPI06050, 13J00587
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resolving the eukaryotic tree of life (eToL) remains a fundamental challenge in biology. Much of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity is occupied by unicellular microbial eukaryotes (i.e., protists). Among these, the phylogenetic positions of a significant number of lineages remain unresolved due to limited data and ambiguous traits. To address this issue, we introduce the term "PUPAs" (protists with uncertain phylogenetic affiliations) to collectively describe these lineages, instead of using vague or inconsistent labels, such as

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eukaryotic tree of lifephylogenomicsprotists with uncertain phylogenetic affiliationsPUPA

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PMID40871430
PMCPMC12388492

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