Thomas Cavalier‐Smith

University of Oxford — United Kingdom

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Protist diversity and phylogeny(159), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology(103), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(46), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species(22), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(21)

Publications223 total

Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi
PROTOPLASMA·2021· 32 citedOpen Access
Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria)
PROTOPLASMA·2020· 71 citedOpen Access
Multigene phylogeny and cell evolution of chromist infrakingdom Rhizaria: contrasting cell organisation of sister phyla Cercozoa and Retaria
PROTOPLASMA·2018· 104 citedOpen Access
Vendozoa and selective forces on animal origin and early diversification: reply to Dufour and McIlroy (2017)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2017· 6 citedOpen Access
Invalidation of Hyperamoeba by Transferring its Species to Other Genera of Myxogastria
2017· 2 cited
Euglenoid pellicle morphogenesis and evolution in light of comparative ultrastructure and trypanosomatid biology: Semi-conservative microtubule/strip duplication, strip shaping and transformation
European Journal of Protistology·2017· 17 citedOpen Access
Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences
PROTOPLASMA·2017· 212 citedOpen Access
High-throughput sequencing of microbial eukaryotes in Lake Baikal reveals ecologically differentiated communities and novel evolutionary radiations
FEMS Microbiology Ecology·2017· 44 citedOpen Access
Correction to ‘Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion’
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2017· 19 citedOpen Access
Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2016· 148 citedOpen Access
Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa
European Journal of Protistology·2016· 88 citedOpen Access
New phagotrophic euglenoid species (new genus Decastava; Scytomonas saepesedens; Entosiphon oblongum), Hsp90 introns, and putative euglenoid Hsp90 pre-mRNA insertional editing
European Journal of Protistology·2016· 17 citedOpen Access
187-gene phylogeny of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa reveals a new class (Cutosea) of deep-branching, ultrastructurally unique, enveloped marine Lobosa and clarifies amoeba evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2016· 75 citedOpen Access
Multiple origins of Heliozoa from flagellate ancestors: New cryptist subphylum Corbihelia, superclass Corbistoma, and monophyly of Haptista, Cryptista, Hacrobia and Chromista
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2015· 93 citedOpen Access
Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms
PLoS ONE·2015· 100 citedOpen Access
A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms
PLoS ONE·2015· 566 citedOpen Access
Mixed heterolobosean and novel gregarine lineage genes from culture ATCC 50646: Long-branch artefacts, not lateral gene transfer, distort α-tubulin phylogeny
European Journal of Protistology·2014· 9 citedOpen Access
The Neomuran Revolution and Phagotrophic Origin of Eukaryotes and Cilia in the Light of Intracellular Coevolution and a Revised Tree of Life
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology·2014· 65 citedOpen Access
Multigene eukaryote phylogeny reveals the likely protozoan ancestors of opisthokonts (animals, fungi, choanozoans) and Amoebozoa
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2014· 106 citedOpen Access
Multigene phylogeny resolves deep branching of Amoebozoa
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2014· 102 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ema E. Chao(5), Juan F. Saldarriaga(2), F. J. R. Taylor(2), Patrick J. Keeling(2), David Bass(2), Michael A. Ruggiero(1), Dennis P.‏ Gordon(1), Thomas Orrell(1), Nicolas Bailly(1), Thierry Bourgoin(1), Richard C. Brusca(1), Michael D. Guiry(1), Paul M. Kirk(1), John Tooze(1), Susan E. Douglas(1), Stefan Zauner(1), Martin Fraunholz(1), Margaret J. Beaton(1), Susanne Penny(1), Lang-Tuo Deng(1)