Wallaceina

Wallaceina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Excavata
(unranked): Discoba
Superphylum: Discicristata
Phylum: Euglenozoa
Subphylum: Glycomonada
Class: Kinetoplastea
Subclass: Metakinetoplastina
Order: Trypanosomatida
Family: Trypanosomatidae
Genus: Wallaceina
Bulat, Mokrousov and Podlipaev 1999[1]
Species
  • W. brevicula (Frolov & Malysheva 1989) Frolov, Kolesnikov Podlipaev 1999
  • W. collosoma (Wallace et al. 1960) Votýpka & Lukeš 2014
  • W. inconstans (Podlipaev, Frolov & Kolesnikov 1990)
  • W. podlipaevi (Podlipaev 1985) Malysheva & Frolov 2009
  • W. raviniae Votýpka & Lukeš 2014
  • W. rigida (Podlipaev, Malysheva & Kolesnikov 1991) Votýpka & Lukeš 2014
  • W. vicina Malysheva & Frolov 2004
Synonyms
  • Proteomonas Podlipaev, Frolov and Kolesnikov, 1990 non Hill & Wetherbee 1986 [2]

Wallaceina is a genus of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to the family Trypanosomatidae.[1][2] This generic name is a replacement name for Proteomonas Podlipaev, Frolov et Kolesnikov, 1990 because the latter Proteomonas was already attributed to a cryptomonad.[1] Wallaceina is a taxonomic patronym honoring the protistologist Franklin G. Wallace, a pioneer in the modern taxonomy of trypanosomatids.

Wallaceina is a monoxenous parasite of insects. Other one-host trypanosomatids from hemipteran and dipteran insects have been traditionally placed in genera Blastocrithidia, Crithidia, Leptomonas, Herpetomonas, and Rhynchoidomonas.[3][4] Wallaceina is characterized by endomastigote morphological forms, whereas epimastigotes and opisthomastigotes are features of the genera Blastocrithidia and Herpetomonas, respectively.[4]

Comparison and phylogenetic analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA and glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphatedehydrogenase sequences of trypanosomatid taxa indicate that the genus Wallaceina is polyphyletic. It is therefore suggested to reassign Wallaceina species either to Crithidia brevicula (for Wallaceina brevicula, W. inconstans, W. vicina, and W. podlipaevi) or to the newly proposed genus Wallacemonas (for Wallaceina collosoma, W. rigida, and W. raviniae).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bulat, Sergei A.; Mokrousov, Igor V.; Podlipaev, Sergei A. (1999-10-15). "Classification of trypanosomatids from insects and plants by the UP-PCR (Universally Primed PCR) technique and cross dot blot hybridization of PCR products". European Journal of Protistology. 35 (3): 319–326. doi:10.1016/S0932-4739(99)80010-8. ISSN 0932-4739.
  2. 1 2 Podlipaev, S.A.; Frolov, A.O.; Kolesnikov, A.A. (1990). "Proteomonas inconstans n. gen. n. sp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a parasite of the bug Calocoris sexguttatus (Hemiptera, Miridae)" (PDF). Parasitologija (Russia). 24: 339–345.
  3. ↑ Merzlyak, Ekaterina; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav; Kolesnikov, Alexander A.; Alexandrov, Kirill; Podlipaev, Sergei A.; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2001-03-01). "Diversity and Phylogeny of Insect Trypanosomatids Based on Small Subunit rRNA Genes: Polyphyly of Leptomonas and Blastocrithidia". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 48 (2): 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00298.x. ISSN 1066-5234. PMID 12095103.
  4. 1 2 Yurchenko, Vyacheslav Y.; Lukeš, Julius; Tesařová, Martina; Jirků, Milan; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2008-01-01). "Morphological Discordance of the New Trypanosomatid Species Phylogenetically Associated with the Genus Crithidia". Protist. 159 (1): 99–114. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2007.07.003. PMID 17931968.
  5. ↑ Kostygov, Alexei Yu.; Grybchuk-Ieremenko, Anastasiia; Malysheva, Marina N.; Frolov, Alexander O.; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav (2014-09-01). "Molecular revision of the genus Wallaceina". Protist. 165 (5): 594–604. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2014.07.001. ISSN 1434-4610.
This article is issued from Offline. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.