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Wilhelm Foissner

Wilhelm Foissner

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
14075
World Ranking
10776
National Ranking
98

Overview

Wilhelm Foissner was a researcher affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria, whose work focused primarily on protist diversity and phylogeny as well as microbial community ecology and physiology. Their research contributed to several fields including environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to molecular biology, ecology, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

The scientist published research exploring the morphology and molecular phylogeny of ciliates and related protists. Notable recent publications included:

  • Morphology and ontogenesis of two new Hemiholosticha species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia, Hemiholostichidae nov. fam.), 2020, European Journal of Protistology
  • Morphological and molecular phylogeny of the polycytopharyngeal ciliate Pycnothrix monocystoides Schubotz, 1908, 2020, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management

Their research topics broadly covered:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis

The scientist frequently collaborated with colleagues in their field, including Peter Vďačný, Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid, Michaela C. Strüder-Kypke, and Denis H. Lynn. Their work appeared in journals such as the European Journal of Protistology and Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, reflecting a focus on diverse ecological and molecular biological topics.

Wilhelm Foissner's contribution spanned various subfields including molecular biology and ecology. Their studies bridged both fundamental and applied aspects of environmental science and molecular biology, addressing questions of microbial diversity, phylogenetic relationships, and ecosystem health.

Best Publications

  • Biogeography and Dispersal of Micro-organisms: A Review Emphasizing Protists

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • A user‐friendly guide to the ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) commonly used by hydrobiologists as bioindicators in rivers, lakes, and waste waters, with notes on their ecology

    Wilhelm Foissner;Helmut Berger

  • Basic light and scanning electron microscopic methods for taxonomic studies of ciliated protozoa

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • Soil ciliates (protozoa, ciliophora) from Namibia (Southwest Africa), with emphasis on two contrasting environments, the Etosha Region and the Namib Desert

    Wilhelm Foissner;Sabine Agatha;Helmut Berger

  • Taxonomische und okologische Revision der Ciliaten des Saprobiensystems

    John O. Corliss;W. Foissner;H. Blatterer;H. Berger

  • Identification and ecology of limnetic plankton ciliates

    Wilhelm Foissner;Helmut Berger;Jochen Schaumburg;Bayerisches Landesamt für Wasserwirtschaft

  • Protist diversity: estimates of the near-imponderable.

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • Protist diversity and distribution: some basic considerations

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • An update of ‘basic light and scanning electron microscopic methods for taxonomic studies of ciliated protozoa’

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • Diversity and geographic distribution of ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora)

    Wilhelm Foissner;Anne Chao;Laura A. Katz

  • An updated compilation of world soil ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora), with ecological notes, new records, and descriptions of new species

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • An introduction to the biogeography of aquatic microbes

    Published November;John R. Dolan;A. J. Baldwin;P. Catala

  • Reconciling classical and molecular phylogenies in the stichotrichines (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea), including new sequences from some rare species

    Wilhelm Foissner;Seung Yeo Moon-van der Staay;Georg W.M. van der Staay;Johannes H.P. Hackstein

  • Reframing the Everything is everywhere debate: evidence for high gene flow and diversity in ciliate morphospecies

    Laura A. Katz;George B. McManus;Oona L. O. Snoeyenbos-West;Autumn Griffin

  • A statistical approach to estimate soil ciliate diversity and distribution based on data from five continents

    A. Chao;P.C. Li;Sabine Agatha;W. Foissner

  • Morphology and Morphogenesis of Strobilidium caudatum (Fromentel), Meseres corlissi N. Sp., Halteria grandinella (Müller), and Strombidium rehwaldi N. Sp., and a Proposed Phylogenetic System for Oligotrich Ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora)1

    Wolfgang Petz;Wilhelm Foissner

  • Cladistic relationships and generic characterization of oxytrichid hypotrichs (protozoa, ciliophora)

    Helmut Berger;Wilhelm Foissner

  • Global soil ciliate (Protozoa, Ciliophora) diversity: a probability-based approach using large sample collections from Africa, Australia and Antarctica

    Wilhelm Foissner

  • Morphology and biometry of some soil hypotrichs (Protozoa: Ciliophora)

    H. Berger;W. Foissner

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorsten Stoeck
Thorsten Stoeck Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Micah Dunthorn
Micah Dunthorn University of Oslo
Laura A. Katz
Laura A. Katz Smith College
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid King Saud University
Denis H. Lynn
Denis H. Lynn University of British Columbia
Thomas Weisse
Thomas Weisse University of Innsbruck
Slava S. Epstein
Slava S. Epstein Northeastern University
Anne Chao
Anne Chao National Tsing Hua University
André-Denis G. Wright
André-Denis G. Wright University of Arizona

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