Thesis etd-07112025-175026 | |
Thesis type
Tesi di dottorato di ricerca
Thesis title
Next Generation Taxonomy of Ciliophora and their symbionts, with special attention to ciliates from Tuscany and South Africa
Academic discipline
BIO/05 - ZOOLOGIA
Keywords
- ciliates
- Ciliophora
- phylogeny
- systematics
- taxonomy
Graduation session start date
17/07/2025
Abstract (Italiano)
This thesis presents several instances of NGTax applied to ciliates in different ways and comtexts, both extensively and intensively, in the hope of future expansion. We describe a census of ciliate diversity in four locations in Tuscany and two in South Africa; NGTax-based descriptions of five novel species, presenting a case for the institution of class Copemetopea; and a literature review reconstructing the joint taxonomic history of Lacrymaria and Phialina, proposing the union of the two genera and evaluating the status of validity of their species.
