Alastair GB Simpson

Alastair GB Simpson

Dalhousie University

H-index: 53

North America-Canada

About Alastair GB Simpson

Alastair GB Simpson, With an exceptional h-index of 53 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Dalhousie University, specializes in the field of Protistology, Phylogenetics, Systematics, Cell evolution, Microbial Biodiversity.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The function of the feeding groove of ‘typical excavate’flagellates

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora

Characterisation of Skoliomonas gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada).

Kaonashia insperata gen. et sp. nov., a eukaryotrophic flagellate, represents a novel major lineage of heterotrophic stramenopiles

Contractile vacuoles: A rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding

Characterisation and cultivation of new lineages of Colponemids, a critical assemblage for inferring Alveolate evolution

FORAGING MECHANISMS IN EXCAVATE FLAGELLATES SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY OF EARLY EUKARYOTES

Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads

Alastair GB Simpson Information

University

Position

Professor Department of Biology

Citations(all)

17783

Citations(since 2020)

6614

Cited By

13640

hIndex(all)

53

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

118

i10Index(since 2020)

81

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Alastair GB Simpson Skills & Research Interests

Protistology

Phylogenetics

Systematics

Cell evolution

Microbial Biodiversity

Top articles of Alastair GB Simpson

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The function of the feeding groove of ‘typical excavate’flagellates

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Sei Suzuki‐Tellier

Thomas Kiørboe

Alastair GB Simpson

2024/3

Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora

bioRxiv

Yana Eglit

Takashi Shiratori

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist

Kelsey Williamson

Andrew J Roger

...

2023

Characterisation of Skoliomonas gen. nov., a haloalkaliphilic anaerobe related to barthelonids (Metamonada).

bioRxiv

Yana Eglit

Shelby K Williams

Andrew J Roger

Alastair GB Simpson

2024

Kaonashia insperata gen. et sp. nov., a eukaryotrophic flagellate, represents a novel major lineage of heterotrophic stramenopiles

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Elizabeth J Weston

Yana Eglit

Alastair GB Simpson

2023/10/6

Contractile vacuoles: A rapidly expanding (and occasionally diminishing?) understanding

European Journal of Protistology

Kiran J More

Harpreet Kaur

Alastair GB Simpson

Frederick W Spiegel

Joel B Dacks

2024/3/26

Characterisation and cultivation of new lineages of Colponemids, a critical assemblage for inferring Alveolate evolution

Protist

Andrea S Gigeroff

Yana Eglit

Alastair GB Simpson

2023/4/1

FORAGING MECHANISMS IN EXCAVATE FLAGELLATES SHED NEW LIGHT ON THE FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY OF EARLY EUKARYOTES

bioRxiv

Sei Suzuki-Tellier

Federica Miano

Seyed Saeed Asadzadeh

Alastair GB Simpson

Thomas Kiorboe

2023

Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads

bioRxiv

Shelby K Williams

Jon Jerlstom-Hultqvist

Yana Eglit

Dayana E Salas-Leiva

Bruce Curtis

...

2023

Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world

ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer

Ross S Low

Ellis Charles O'Neill

Ishuo Huang

Antonio DeSimone

...

2022/11/1

Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation

bioRxiv

Edward Cedrick J Fernandez

Eliza Vie M Simon-Ada

Jay-Vee S Mendoza

Anand Noel C Manohar

Roanne R Gardoce

...

2023/11/6

Diplonemids–A Review on" New" Flagellates on the Oceanic Block

Daria Tashyreva

Alastair GB Simpson

Galina Prokopchuk

Ingrid Škodová-Sveráková

Anzhelika Butenko

...

2022/4/1

A free-living protist that lacks canonical eukaryotic DNA replication and segregation systems

bioRxiv

Dayana E Salas-Leiva

Eelco C Tromer

Bruce A Curtis

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist

Martin Kolisko

...

2021/3/15

Description of the marine predator Sericomyxa perlucida gen. et sp. nov., a cultivated representative of the deepest branching lineage of vampyrellid amoebae …

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Kiran More

Alastair GB Simpson

Sebastian Hess

2021/11

Description of Imasa heleensis, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Imasidae, fam. nov.), a Deep‐Branching Marine Malawimonad and Possible Key Taxon in Understanding Early …

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Aaron A Heiss

Sally D Warring

Kaleigh Lukacs

John Favate

Ashley Yang

...

2021/3

Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist

Nature communications

Dayana E Salas-Leiva

Eelco C Tromer

Bruce A Curtis

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist

Martin Kolisko

...

2021/10/14

Evolutionary History of Mitochondrial Genomes in Discoba, Including the Extreme Halophile Pleurostomum flabellatum (Heterolobosea)

Genome biology and evolution

Khaoula Ettahi

Duckhyun Lhee

Ji Yeon Sung

Alastair GB Simpson

Jong Soo Park

...

2021/2/1

Revision of the phylogeny of Placididea (Stramenopiles): molecular and morphological diversity of novel placidid protists from extreme aquatic environments

European Journal of Protistology

Alexandra E Rybarski

Frank Nitsche

Jong Soo Park

Paulina Filz

Patricia Schmidt

...

2021/10/1

A review series on the biology of selected protist groups

Alastair GB Simpson

Michael Melkonian

2021/7/1

Multigene phylogenetics of euglenids based on single-cell transcriptomics of diverse phagotrophs

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

G Lax

M Kolisko

Y Eglit

WJ Lee

N Yubuki

...

2021/6/1

EukRef-excavates: seven curated SSU ribosomal RNA gene databases

Database

Martin Kolisko

Olga Flegontova

Anna Karnkowska

Gordon Lax

Julia M Maritz

...

2020

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