Mantamonas vickermani is a species of marine heterotrophic flagellates described in 2021. It belongs to the Mantamonadida,[2] a basal eukaryotic lineage within a clade known as CRuMs.[3][1]

Mantamonas vickermani
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Opimoda
Clade: CRuMs
Class: Glissodiscea
Order: Mantamonadida
Family: Mantamonadidae
Genus: Mantamonas
Species:
M. vickermani
Binomial name
Mantamonas vickermani
Blaz et al. 2021[1]

Description

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Like other Mantamonas species, M. vickermani are heterotrophic unicellular protists with one anterior and one posterior flagellum in each cell. The transcriptome of Mantamonas vickermani is estimated to be 21 megabases long, with 9,561 unique proteins.[1]

Ecology

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Mantamonas vickermani was isolated from a marine sediment sample collected in 2014 from the shallow marine lagoon Malo jezero (Mljet) [hr], in the Mljet National Park on the island of Mljet, Croatia.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Blaz, Jazmin; Galindo, Luis Javier; Heiss, Aaron A.; Kaur, Harpreet; Torruella, Guifré; Yang, Ashley; Thompson, L. Alexa; Filbert, Alexander; Warring, Sally; Narechania, Apurva; Shiratori, Takashi; Ishida, Ken-ichiro; Dacks, Joel B.; López-García, Purificación; Moreira, David; Kim, Eunsoo; Eme, Laura (January 2021). "High quality genome and transcriptome data for two new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade" (PDF). bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2023.01.20.524885.
  2. ^ Glücksman, Edvard; Snell, Elizabeth A.; Berney, Cédric; Chao, Ema E.; Bass, David; Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (September 2010). "The Novel Marine Gliding Zooflagellate Genus Mantamonas (Mantamonadida ord. n.: Apusozoa)". Protist. 162 (2): 207–221. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2010.06.004. PMID 20884290.
  3. ^ Brown, Matthew W; Heiss, Aaron A; Kamikawa, Ryoma; Inagaki, Yuji; Yabuki, Akinori; Tice, Alexander K; Shiratori, Takashi; Ishida, Ken-Ichiro; Hashimoto, Tetsuo (January 2018). "Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group". Genome Biology and Evolution. 10 (2): 427–433. doi:10.1093/gbe/evy014. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 5793813. PMID 29360967.