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Jeffrey D. Silberman
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Also affiliated: The University of Sydney (2001); Dalhousie University (2004–2010); Marine Biological Laboratory (1996–2002); University of Miami (1992–1994); University of California, Los Angeles (2000–2004); Czech Academy of Sciences (2022–2026); University of California San Diego (2001); Institute of Parasitology (2022–2026); Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre (2022–2026); University of California, Berkeley (2001)
38 h-index
65 pubs
4,248 cited
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Jeffrey D. Silberman's research centers on the molecular evolution and phylogenetics of microbial eukaryotes, with a particular emphasis on protists. His work investigates the deep evolutionary relationships within diverse groups, including Heterolobosea and diplomonads, utilizing extensive gene and taxon sampling to reconstruct evolutionary histories. Silberman has published research on the genetic codes and cryptic life stages of these organisms, as well as the evolutionary transitions of their organelles, such as the development of hydrogenosomes and mitosomes.
His recent publications explore the unexpected diversity of free-living protists, the phylogenetic placement of commensal organisms like *Lophomonas blattarum*, and the isolation of new species such as *Naegleria lustrarea* from amphibian hosts. Silberman's research also examines the evolutionary trajectories of anaerobic mitochondria in protists and the validation of taxonomic classifications, such as the genus *Pocheina*. With an h-index of 38 and over 4,000 citations, his work is recognized for its impact in the field.
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- h-index: 38
- Publications: 65
- Citations: 4,248
Selected Publications
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Divergent Trajectories for Anaerobic Mitochondrial Evolution in Breviate Protists (2026)
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DIVERGENT TRAJECTORIES FOR ANAEROBIC MITOCHONDRIAL EVOLUTION IN BREVIATE PROTISTS (2026)
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Validating the Genus Pocheina (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Discoba) Leads to the Recognition of Three Major Lineages Within Acrasidae (2025)
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Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle (2024)
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Isolation of Naegleria lustrarea n. sp. (Excavata, Discoba, Heterolobosea) from the feces of Ambystoma annulatum (Ringed Salamander) in Northwest Arkansas (2024)
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True molecular phylogenetic position of the cockroach gut commensal Lophomonas blattarum (Lophomonadida, Parabasalia) (2023)
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Evidence for an Independent Hydrogenosome-to-Mitosome Transition in the CL3 Lineage of Fornicates (2022)
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Free-living Trichomonads are Unexpectedly Diverse (2022)
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Phylogeny and Classification of Novel Diversity in Sainouroidea (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) Sheds Light on a Highly Diverse and Divergent Clade (2018)
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Variation in the SSUrDNA of the Genus Protostelium Leads to a New Phylogenetic Understanding of the Genus and of the Species Concept for Protostelium mycophaga (Protosteliida, Amoebozoa) (2017)
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Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae (2017)
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Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes (2017)
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The Earliest Stages of Mitochondrial Adaptation to Low Oxygen Revealed in a Novel Rhizarian (2016)
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Sorodiplophrys stercorea : Another Novel Lineage of Sorocarpic Multicellularity (2016)
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Coprophilic amoebae and flagellates, including Guttulinopsis, Rosculus and Helkesimastix, characterise a divergent and diverse rhizarian radiation and contribute to a large diversity of faecal‐associated protists (2016)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Matthew W. Brown
Mississippi State University (US)
17 shared publications
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads
- Phylogeny of the "Forgotten" Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta
- Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA Phylogeny of Protosteloid Slime Molds and Its Significance for the Amoebozoan Supergroup
- Aggregative Multicellularity Evolved Independently in the Eukaryotic Supergroup Rhizaria
Showing 5 of 17 shared publications
Andrew J. Roger
Dalhousie University (CA)
12 shared publications
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads
- Aggregative Multicellularity Evolved Independently in the Eukaryotic Supergroup Rhizaria
- Novel mitochondrion‐related organelles in the anaerobic amoeba Mastigamoeba balamuthi
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
Frederick W. Spiegel
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
9 shared publications
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- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA Phylogeny of Protosteloid Slime Molds and Its Significance for the Amoebozoan Supergroup
- A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata)
- “Slime Molds” among the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa): Molecular Systematics and Taxonomy of Copromyxa
- Amoeba at Attention: Phylogenetic Affinity of Sappinia pedata
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Ivan Čepička
Charles University (CZ)
9 shared publications
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads
- Diversity, Evolution and Molecular Systematics of the Psalteriomonadidae, the Main Lineage of Anaerobic/Microaerophilic Heteroloboseans (Excavata: Discoba)
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Alastair G. B. Simpson
Dalhousie University (CA)
8 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Amoeba Stages in the Deepest Branching Heteroloboseans, Including Pharyngomonas: Evolutionary and Systematic Implications
- Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Martin Kolísko
Sewanee: The University of the South (US)
5 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- Aggregative Multicellularity Evolved Independently in the Eukaryotic Supergroup Rhizaria
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads
- Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle
Alexander K. Tice
Texas Tech University (US)
5 shared publications
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Coprophilic amoebae and flagellates, including Guttulinopsis, Rosculus and Helkesimastix, characterise a divergent and diverse rhizarian radiation and contribute to a large diversity of faecal‐associated protists
- Sorodiplophrys stercorea : Another Novel Lineage of Sorocarpic Multicellularity
- Phylogeny and Classification of Novel Diversity in Sainouroidea (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) Sheds Light on a Highly Diverse and Divergent Clade
- Validating the Genus Pocheina (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Discoba) Leads to the Recognition of Three Major Lineages Within Acrasidae
Naoji Yubuki
Charles University (CZ)
4 shared publications
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Diversity, Evolution and Molecular Systematics of the Psalteriomonadidae, the Main Lineage of Anaerobic/Microaerophilic Heteroloboseans (Excavata: Discoba)
- Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogenetic Position of a Novel Phagotrophic Stramenopile from Low Oxygen Environments: Rictus lutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida, incertae sedis)
- Free-living Trichomonads are Unexpectedly Diverse
Courtney W. Stairs
Uppsala University (SE)
4 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- The Earliest Stages of Mitochondrial Adaptation to Low Oxygen Revealed in a Novel Rhizarian
- DIVERGENT TRAJECTORIES FOR ANAEROBIC MITOCHONDRIAL EVOLUTION IN BREVIATE PROTISTS
- Divergent Trajectories for Anaerobic Mitochondrial Evolution in Breviate Protists
Alexandra Stechmann
Dalhousie University (CA)
3 shared publications
- Novel mitochondrion‐related organelles in the anaerobic amoeba Mastigamoeba balamuthi
- Genetic Evidence for a Mitochondriate Ancestry in the ‘Amitochondriate’ Flagellate Trimastix pyriformis
- The glycolytic pathway of Trimastix pyriformis is an evolutionary mosaic.
Tomáš Pánek
Charles University (CZ)
3 shared publications
- Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae
- Diversity, Evolution and Molecular Systematics of the Psalteriomonadidae, the Main Lineage of Anaerobic/Microaerophilic Heteroloboseans (Excavata: Discoba)
- Marine Isolates of Trimastix marina Form a Plesiomorphic Deep-branching Lineage within Preaxostyla, Separate from Other Known Trimastigids (Paratrimastix n. gen.)
Brian S. Leander
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CA)
3 shared publications
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Diversity, Evolution and Molecular Systematics of the Psalteriomonadidae, the Main Lineage of Anaerobic/Microaerophilic Heteroloboseans (Excavata: Discoba)
- Ultrastructure and Molecular Phylogenetic Position of a Novel Phagotrophic Stramenopile from Low Oxygen Environments: Rictus lutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida, incertae sedis)
Akinori Yabuki
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JP)
3 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads
Yuji Inagaki
University of Tsukuba (JP)
3 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- A wide diversity of previously undetected free‐living relatives of diplomonads isolated from marine/saline habitats
- Multigene Phylogenies of Diverse Carpediemonas-like Organisms Identify the Closest Relatives of ‘Amitochondriate’ Diplomonads and Retortamonads
Michelle M. Leger
Dalhousie University (CA)
3 shared publications
- Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes
- DIVERGENT TRAJECTORIES FOR ANAEROBIC MITOCHONDRIAL EVOLUTION IN BREVIATE PROTISTS
- Divergent Trajectories for Anaerobic Mitochondrial Evolution in Breviate Protists
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