Original Papers

Description of Lecythium terrestris sp. nov. (Chlamydophryidae, Cercozoa), a Soil Dwelling Protist Feeding on Fungi and Algae
Kenneth Dumack, Marina E.H. Müller, Michael Bonkowski

Defining Planktonic Protist Functional Groups on Mechanisms for Energy and Nutrient Acquisition: Incorporation of Diverse Mixotrophic Strategies
Aditee Mitra, Kevin J. Flynn, Urban Tillmann, John A. Raven, David Caron, Diane K. Stoecker, Fabrice Not, Per J. Hansen, Gustaaf Hallegraeff, Robert Sanders, Susanne Wilken, George McManus, Mathew Johnson, Paraskevi Pitta, Selina Våge, Terje Berge, Albert Calbet, Frede Thingstad, Hae Jin Jeong, JoAnn Burkholder, Patricia M. Glibert, Edna Granélir, Veronica Lundgren

Ribosomal RNA Genes in the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania major Possess a Nucleosomal Structure
Juan C. Vizuet-de-Rueda, Luis E. Florencio-Martínez, Norma E. Padilla-Mejía, Rebeca Manning-Cela, Rosaura Hernández-Rivas, Santiago Martínez-Calvillo

Influence of Starvation on Respiratory Metabolism and Pyridine Nucleotide Levels in the Marine Dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina
Natalia Osma, Manuela Aristizabal, Igor Fernández-Urruzola, Theodore T. Packard, May Gómez

Leucocytozoon Diversity and Possible Vectors in the Neotropical highlands of Colombia
Ingrid A. Lotta, M. Andreína Pacheco, Ananias A. Escalante, Angie D. González, Juan S. Mantilla, Ligia I. Moncada, Peter H. Adler, Nubia E. Matta

Phylogenetic Relationships and Biogeography of the Diatom Genus Mastogloia (Bacillariophyceae): Revision of the Section Ellipticae Including the Description of New Taxa
Chiara Pennesi, Michel Poulin, Cecilia Totti

DNA Analysis of Algal Endosymbionts of Ciliates Reveals the State of Algal Integration and the Surprising Specificity of the Symbiosis
Ryo Hoshina, Yasushi Kusuoka

Phylogenetic Analyses of Three Genes of Pedinomonas noctilucae, the Green Endosymbiont of the Marine Dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans, Reveal its Affiliation to the Order Marsupiomonadales (Chlorophyta, Pedinophyceae) under the Reinstated Name Protoeuglena noctilucae
Lu Wang, Xin Lin, Joaquim I. Goes, Senjie Lin