Journal
PROTIST
Volume 166, Issue 4, Pages 468-491Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2015.07.003
Keywords
Anaerobe; cytoskeleton; flagellar apparatus; oxymonads; phylogeny; ultrastructure
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- Natural Science and Engineering Council, Canada (NSERC) [298366-2009]
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR) Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity
- Natural Science Foundation of China [31301867]
- Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Shandong [JQ201210]
- Czech Science Foundation [GA14-14105S]
- Grant Agency of Charles University [1184214]
- Arkansas BioSciences Institute
- China Scholarship Council (CSC)
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Trimastigids are free-living, anaerobic protists that are closely related to the symbiotic oxymonads, forming together the taxon Preaxostyla (Excavata: Metamonada). We isolated fourteen new strains morphologically corresponding to two species assigned to Trimastix (until now the only genus of trimastigids), Trimastix marina and Trimastix pyriformis. Unexpectedly, marine strains of Trimastix marina branch separately from freshwater strains of this morphospecies in SSU rRNA gene trees, and instead form the sister group of all other Preaxostyla. This position is confirmed by three-gene phylogenies. Ultrastructural examination of a marine isolate of Trimastix marina demonstrates a combination of trimastigid-like features (e.g. preaxostyle-like I fibre) and ancestral characters (e.g. absence of thickened flagellar vane margins), consistent with inclusion of marine T. marina within Preaxostyla, but also supporting its distinctiveness from 'freshwater T. marina' and its deep-branching position within Preaxostyla. Since these results indicate paraphyly of Trimastix as currently understood, we transfer the other better-studied trimastigids to Paratrimastix n. gen. and Paratrimastigidae n. fam. The freshwater form previously identified as T. marina is described as Paratrimastix eleionoma n. sp., and Trimastix pyriformis becomes Paratrimastix pyriformis n. comb. Because of its phylogenetic position, 'true' Trimastix is potentially important for understanding the evolution of mitochondrion-related organelles in metamonads. (C) 2015 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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