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University of Victoria: Victoria, CA

2023-03-01 to present | Postdoc (Department of Biology)
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Yana Eglit

Dalhousie University: Halifax, NS, CA

2015-01-01 to 2022-12-31 | PhD Candidate (Biology)
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Dalhousie University: Halifax, CA

2015-01-01 to 2022-12-31 | PhD (Biology)
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Works (25)

Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2025-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1066-5234
Part of ISSN: 1550-7408
Contributors: Julia A. Packer; Daryna Zavadska; Elizabeth J. Weston; Yana Eglit; Daniel J. Richter; Alastair Simpson
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Characterization of Skoliomonas gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Yana Eglit; Shelby K. Williams; Andrew J. Roger; Alastair G. B. Simpson
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Two newly cultivated eukaryotrophic flagellates represent distinct anaerobic lineages within Rhizaria

2024-09-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Yana Eglit; Maggie Lawton; Alastair G.B. Simpson; Ryan M.R. Gawryluk
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Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads

Nature Communications
2024-08-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Shelby K. Williams; Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist; Yana Eglit; Dayana E. Salas-Leiva; Bruce Curtis; Russell J. S. Orr; courtney w stairs; Tuğba N. Atalay; Naomi MacMillan; Alastair G. B. Simpson et al.
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Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-07-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Alfredo L. Porfirio-Sousa; Alexander K. Tice; Luana Morais; Giulia M. Ribeiro; Quentin Blandenier; Kenneth Dumack; Yana Eglit; Nicholas W. Fry; Maria Beatriz Gomes E Souza; Tristan C. Henderson et al.
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Characterisation ofSkoliomonasgen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada)

2024-03-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Yana Eglit; Shelby K. Williams; Andrew J. Roger; Alastair G.B. Simpson
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Kaonashia insperata gen. et sp. nov., a eukaryotrophic flagellate, represents a novel major lineage of heterotrophic stramenopiles

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Elizabeth J. Weston; Yana Eglit; Alastair G. B. Simpson
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Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora

Current Biology
2024-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0960-9822
Contributors: Yana Eglit; Takashi Shiratori; Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist; Kelsey Williamson; Andrew J. Roger; Ken-Ichiro Ishida; Alastair Simpson
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Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity

PLOS Biology
2023-11-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1545-7885
Contributors: Patrick Keeling; Yana Eglit
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Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

2023-11-12 | Preprint
Contributors: Alfredo L. Porfirio-Sousa; Alexander K. Tice; Luana Morais; Giulia M. Ribeiro; Quentin Blandenier; Kenneth Dumack; Yana Eglit; Nicholas W. Fry; Maria Beatriz Gomes E Souza; Tristan C. Henderson et al.
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Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads

2023-05-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Shelby K. Williams; Jon Jerlström Hultqvist; Yana Eglit; Dayana E. Salas-Leiva; Bruce Curtis; Russell J. S. Orr; Courtney W. Stairs; Tuğba N. Atalay; Naomi MacMillan; Alastair G. B. Simpson et al.
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Characterisation and Cultivation of New Lineages of Colponemids, a Critical Assemblage for Inferring Alveolate Evolution

Protist
2023-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1434-4610
Contributors: Andrea S. Gigeroff; Yana Eglit; Alastair G.B. Simpson
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Yana Eglit

Ten simple rules for choosing a PhD supervisor

PLOS Computational Biology
2021-09-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Loay Jabre; Scott Markel; Catherine Bannon; J. Scott P. McCain; Yana Eglit
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Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2021-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
Contributors: G. Lax; M. Kolisko; Y. Eglit; W.J. Lee; N. Yubuki; A. Karnkowska; B.S. Leander; G. Burger; P.J. Keeling; A.G.B. Simpson
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Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-09-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0962-8452
Part of ISSN: 1471-2954
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Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2019-11-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Luis Javier Galindo; Guifré Torruella; David Moreira; Yana Eglit; Alastair G. B. Simpson; Eckhard Völcker; Steffen Clauß; Purificación López-García
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Ecological and evolutionary patterns in the enigmatic protist genus Percolomonas (Heterolobosea; Discoba) from diverse habitats

PLOS ONE
2019-08-29 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
Contributors: Denis V. Tikhonenkov; Soo Hwan Jhin; Yana Eglit; Kai Miller; Andrey Plotnikov; Alastair G. B. Simpson; Jong Soo Park
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Ploeotids Represent Much of the Phylogenetic Diversity of Euglenids

Protist
2019-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1434-4610
Contributors: Gordon Lax; Won Je Lee; Yana Eglit; Alastair Simpson
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Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes

Nature
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Contributors: Gordon Lax; Yana Eglit; Laura Eme; Erin M. Bertrand; Andrew J. Roger; Alastair G. B. Simpson
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Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2018-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1066-5234
Contributors: Sina M. Adl; David Bass; Christopher E. Lane; Julius Lukeš; Conrad L. Schoch; Alexey Smirnov; Sabine Agatha; Cedric Berney; Matthew W. Brown; Fabien Burki et al.
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Diversity and Evolution of Paramoeba spp. and their Kinetoplastid Endosymbionts

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
2017-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1066-5234
Contributors: Shannon J. Sibbald; Ugo Cenci; Morgan Colp; Yana Eglit; Charles J. O'Kelly; John M. Archibald
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Protist Diversification

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology
2016 | Other
Contributors: A.G.B. Simpson; Y. Eglit
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Amplification primers of SSU rDNA for soil protists

Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2014-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0038-0717
Contributors: Sina M. Adl; Andrea Habura; Yana Eglit
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FOUR LIPS and MYB88 conditionally restrict the G1/S transition during stomatal formation

Journal of Experimental Botany
2013-10-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1460-2431
Contributors: EunKyoung Lee; Xuguang Liu; Yana Eglit; Fred Sack
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The Protist Wonderland

Microbe Magazine
2011-01-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1558-7452
Contributors: Yana Eglit; Moselio Schaechter
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