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Maia V. Palka

University of British ColumbiaORCID 0009-0005-8743-4438Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1

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Alfredo Rodriguez RuiziD· 1 shared Brian S. LeanderiD· 1 shared Dagmar JírsováiD· 1 shared Gianluca Fuggiti· 1 shared Gordon LaxiD· 1 shared Jeremy G. WidemaniD· 1 shared Yu-Ping Poh· 1 shared

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Evolutionary BiologyJournal of Eukaryotic MicrobiologyPeer-reviewedFeb 26, 2026

Phylogenomic placement and morphological description of a novel phagotrophic euglenid from Hawaii: Hokulea waialensis n. gen. et sp.

Alfredo Rodriguez Ruiz, Maia V. Palka, Gordon Lax…·Jeremy G. Wideman

The paper describes a new euglenid species, Hokulea waialensis, and places it phylogenomically within the ploeotid group using single-cell sequencing and phylogenetic analysis.

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scRNA-seqexperimental assay

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