Journal
PROTIST
Volume 169, Issue 2, Pages 180-189Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.02.002
Keywords
Parahymenostomata; nasse; phylogeny; Paramecium; Tetrahymena
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- TULA Foundation
- Fellowship Purkyne (Academy of Sciences Czech Republic)
- ERD Funds, projectCePaViP [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16019/0000759]
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The class Nassophorea includes the microthoracids and nassulids, which share morphological similarities in their somatic kinetids and cytopharyngeal baskets. The monophyly of this Glade has been challenged by small subunit rRNA gene sequences and multi-gene analyses that do not provide strong support. To provide a more robust test of the monophyly of the Nassophorea, phylogenomic analyses were based on 124 genes derived from the single-cell transcriptomes of the microthoracid Pseudomi-crothorax dubius and the nassulid Furgasonia blochmanni. The nassulid Nassula sorex from the Culture Centre for Algae and Protozoa was also included, but this isolate was discovered to have been misidentified. We first redescribe, using light and scanning electron microscopical techniques, this N. sorex as a new species of Nassula, Nassula variabilis n. sp., characterized by its highly variable nassulid frange. We have sequenced the single-cell transcriptomes to obtain data for phylogenomic analyses. These gave robust support for the Nassophorea, which are sister to a Glade of Colpodea species. If our topology truly represents the order of divergence of taxa, a cytopharyngeal basket with microtubular nematodesmata and with Y and Z microtubular ribbons was likely an ancestral feature, at least of the Phyllopharyngea, Colpodea, Nassophorea, and Oligohymenophorea. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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