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Publications (16)      

1. Brown, Matthew W., Susan C. Sharpe, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Aaron A. Heiss, B. F. Lang, Alastair G. B. Simpson & Andrew J. Roger. 2013 Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 280(20131755).
2. Gigeroff, Andrea S., Yana Eglit & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2023 Characterisation and cultivation of new lineages of colponemids, a critical assemblage for inferring alveolate evolution. Protist 174: 1-17 (Article 125949).
3. Goodwin, Joshua D., Thomas F. Lee, Paul Kugrens & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2018 Allobodo chlorophagus n. gen n. sp, a kinetoplastid that infiltrates and feeds on the invasive alga Codium fragile Protist 169: 911-925.
4. Heiss, Aaron A., Martin Kolisko, Fleming Ekelund, Matthew W. Brown, Andrew J. Roger & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2018 Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes Royal Society Open Science 5(4): 171707.
5. Heiss, Aaron A., Won J. Lee, Ken-Ichiro Ishida & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2015 Cultivation and characterisation of new species of apusomonads (the sister group to opisthokonts), including close relatives of Thecamonas (Chelonemonas n. gen.) Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62: 637-649.
6. Hess, Sebastian, Laura Eme, Andrew J. Roger & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2019 A natural toroidal microswimmer with a rotary eukaryotic flagellum Nature Microbiology.
7. Kirby, William A., Denis Tikhonenkov, Alexander P. Mylnikov, Jan Janouškovec, Gordon Lax & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2015 Characterization of Tulamoeba bucina n. sp., an Extremely Halotolerant Amoeboflagellate Heterolobosean Belonging to the Tulamoeba–Pleurostomum Clade (Tulamoebidae n. fam.) Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 62(2): 227-38.
8. Kolisko, Martin, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Ivan Cepicka, Naoji Yubuki, Kiyotaka Takishita, Akinori Yabuki, Brian S. Leander, Isao Inouye, Yuji Inagaki, Andrew J. Roger & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2010 A wide diversity of previously undetected free-living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats Environmental Microbiology 12(10): 2700-2710.
9. Lax, Gordon, Won J. Lee, Yana Eglit & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2019 Ploeotids represent much of the phylogenetic diversity of euglenids Protist 170(2): 233-257.
10. Lax, Gordon, Yana Eglit, Laura Eme, Erin M. Bertrand, Andrew J. Roger & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2018 Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of Eukaryotes Nature 564(7736): 410–414.
11. Lee, Wonje, Miller & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2014 Morphological and molecular characterisation of a new species of Stephanopogon, Stephanopogon pattersoni n. sp. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 61: 389–398.
12.   Mora, Alberto M. B., Derek P. Tittensor, Sina Adl, Alastair G. B. Simpson & Boris Worm. 2011 How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? Public Library of Science, Biology 9: e1001127.
13. More, Kira, Alastair G. B. Simpson & Sebastian Hess. 2019 Two New Marine Species of Placopus (Vampyrellida, Rhizaria) That Perforate the Theca of Tetraselmis (Chlorodendrales, Viridiplantae) Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology.
14. Pánek, Tomáš, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Vladimír Hampl & Ivan Čepička. 2014 Creneis carolina n. sp., n. gen, marine eukaryote with strikingly derived morphology and life cycle Protist 165(4): 542-457.
15. Park, Jong S. & Alastair G. B. Simpson. 2016 Characterization of a Deep-Branching Heterolobosean, Pharyngomonas turkanaensis n. sp., Isolated From a Non-Hypersaline Habitat, and Ultrastructural Comparison of Cysts and Amoebae Among Pharyngomonas Strains Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 63: 100-111.
16. Rybarski, Alexandra, Frank Nitsche, Jong S. Park, Paulina Filz, Patricia Schmidt, Ryuji Kondo, Alastair G. B. Simpson & Hartmut Arndt. 2021 Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): Molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments European Journal of Protistology 81: 125809.