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\cite{Pawlowski_2012} - this has some #s on currently known diversity + estimates in a section on "The Unknown Vastness of Protist Richness"  **Seagrass Seagrass  wasting disease (slime mold - Labyrinthula) is a microeukaryote and the disease is a huge problem for seagrass health/continues to desolate seagrass beds globally** globally  - there is currently no genome (or RNAseq data - prob. easier than doing genome b/c introns/exons) for Labyrinthula zosterae that I can find in NCBI/JGI Gold & looking atphotos of it... looking at  papers it doesn't seem hard to culture **additional detail on why gap is a problem**