Updating the tree of life: large-scale sequencing of key protist taxa

Our lab is involved in a collaborating effort aiming at inferring the phylogenetic position of protist lineages that are yet of uncertain affinities. To achieve this, tens of thousand sequences will be generated with the newly available 454 sequencing technology.

At the moment, the list includes:

- Radiolarians (collaboration with Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi and Kjetill Jakobsen from the Microbial Evolution Research Group in Oslo, Norway).

- Plasmodiophorids (collaboration with Simon Bulman from the Crop & Food Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand).

- Centrohelid heliozoans (collaboration with Miako Sakaguchi and Inagaki, from the University of Tsukuba, Japan).

people working on this subject: Jan Wojciech PAWLOWSKI, Fabien BURKI, Alexander KUDRYARTSEV.