Ministeria vibrans
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| File:Ministeria vibrans catching bacteria.jpg | |
| Ministeria vibrans catching a bacterium | |
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| Genus: | Ministeria Patterson, Nygaard, Steinberg & Turley, 1993[1]
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| Species: | Ministeria vibrans
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| Ministeria vibrans Tong, 1997
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Ministeria vibrans is a small single-celled eukaryote which feeds on bacteria. Although it is an opisthokont, it seems not to fit in any of the established opisthokont lineages such as choanoflagellates or animals.[2] It might form the Filasterea group with Capsaspora, another opisthokont of uncertain placement.[3] It is the only known opisthokont lineage which does not exhibit amoeboid cells or flagellated cells,[4] having a spherical body.
References
- ^ Patterson, D. J. Nygaard, K. Steinberg, G. and Turley, C. M. 1992. Heterotrophic flagellates and other protists associated with detritus in the mid North Atlantic. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK 73: 67-95, [1].
- ^ Cavalier-Smith, T; Chao, Ee (May 2003), "Phylogeny of choanozoa, apusozoa, and other protozoa and early eukaryote megaevolution", Journal of Molecular Evolution, 56 (5): 540–63, doi:10.1007/s00239-002-2424-z, PMID 12698292
- ^ Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Minge MA, Espelund M; et al. (2008), Aramayo, Rodolfo (ed.), "Multigene phylogeny of choanozoa and the origin of animals", PLoS ONE, 3 (5): e2098, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002098, PMC 2346548, PMID 18461162
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Esser, Karl (ed.). The Mycota: A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied System. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-642-19974-5.
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