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Goniomonas

Kerstin Hoef-Emden and John M. Archibald
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Containing group: Cryptomonads

Introduction

Described by Stein; type species Goniomonas truncata (freshwater; formerly Monas truncata Fresenius 1858; Stein 1878)

Characteristics

Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships

Cell shape and flagellar appendages of Goniomonas differ markedly from those of plastid-containing cryptophytes. Similarity in ejectosome structure was an early indicator for a relationship of this genus to the cryptophytes (Schuster 1968). Phylogenetic analysis provided definitive evidence (McFadden et al. 1994). Different from other cryptophyte genera, marine and freshwater species of Goniomonas seem to have separated early in evolution and evolved as two clearly distinct lineages (Figure 1; von der Heyden et al. 2004).

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Figure 1. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Goniomonas. Maximum likelihood tree inferred from nuclear SSU rDNA sequences. Scale bar = substitutions per site. © Kerstin Hoef-Emden

Other Names for Goniomonas

References

Fresenius G (1858) Beiträge zur Kenntniss mikroskopischer Organismen. Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges. 2: 211-242

Jezbera J, Horňák K, Šimek K (2005) Food selection by bacterivorous protists: Insight from the analysis of the food vacuole content by means of fluorescence in situ hybridization. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 52: 351-363

Larsen J, Patterson DJ (1990) Some flagellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments. J. Nat. Hist. 24: 801-937

Mignot JP (1965) Étude ultrastructurale de Cyathomonas truncata From. (flagellé cryptomonadine). J. Microscopie 4: 239-252

Mignot JP, Joyon L, Pringsheim EG (1968) Compléments a l'étude cytologique des cryptomonadines. Protistologica 4: 493-505

Schuster FL (1968) The gullet and trichocysts of Cyathomonas truncata. Exp. Cell Res. 49: 277-284

Stein F Ritter von (1878) Der Organismus der Infusionsthiere. W. Engelmann, Leipzig. Vol. 3.1

von der Heyden S, Chao E, Cavalier-Smith T (2004) Genetic diversity of goniomonads: An ancient divergence between marine and freshwater species. Eur. J. Phycol. 39: 343-350

Title Illustrations
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Scientific Name Goniomonas pacifica
Location material collected in marine sediments of Botany Bay (Sydney, Australia)
Creator Won Je Lee
Source Goniomonas pacifica
Source Collection Micro*scope
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Copyright © Dr. Josef Brief
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This page is being developed as part of the Tree of Life Web Project Protist Diversity Workshop, co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity and the Tula Foundation.

Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

John M. Archibald
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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