Andalucia (genus)

Andalucia is a genus of jakobids.[1]

Andalucia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Class: Jakobea
Order: Jakobida
Family: Andaluciidae
Cavalier-Smith 2013
Genus: Andalucia
Lara et al. 2006
Species
  • A. godoyi Lara et al. 2006

Classification

The morphology of Andalucia broadly resembles that of other jakobids. Molecular data has not always been conclusive, but recent phylogenomic analyses indicate that Andalucia is a sister group to the other jakobids, in other words more closely related to them than to the Heterolobosea or Euglenozoa (the other two groups in the Discoba).[2] The α-tubulin gene of Andalucia more closely resembles that of opisthokonts and diplomonads than its closer relatives, the apparent result of horizontal gene transfer.[3]

Species

As of 2015, the soil heterotroph A. godoyi is the only described species in the genus. The species Stygiella incarcerata, living in sulfide-rich marine intertidal sediments,[3] was known as Andalucia incarcerata from 2006, the year of this genus' creation, to 2015.

Analysis of DNA sequences from the environment suggest at least two additional species which have not been isolated or formally described.[3]

References
  1. Lara, Enrique; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2006), "Andalucia (n. Gen.)-the Deepest Branch Within Jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), Based on Morphological and Molecular Study of a New Flagellate from Soil", The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 53 (2): 112–20, doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00081.x, PMID 16579813, S2CID 19092265
  2. Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW, et al. (March 2009), "Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 106 (10): 3859–64, Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.3859H, doi:10.1073/pnas.0807880106, PMC 2656170, PMID 19237557
  3. Simpson, Alastair G.B.; Perley, Thomas A.; Lara, Enrique (2008), "Lateral transfer of the gene for a widely used marker, α-tubulin, indicated by a multi-protein study of the phylogenetic position of Andalucia (Excavata)" (PDF), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47 (1): 366–77, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.035, PMID 18226931


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