The microbial eukaryotes known as protists are of immense importance for our understanding of eukaryotic biology. Although it is often difficult to convince funding bodies to sponsor research projects aimed at finding new protist lineages, such discoveries usually provide new and fundamental insights into cell and evolutionary biology, and ecology.

Department of Zoology Faculty of Sciences Charles University 12800 Prague Czech Republic

Institute of Parasitology Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia 37005 České Budějovice Czech Republic

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