Diphylleia rotans

Diphylleia rotans is a eukaryotic microorganism.[2] It is notable for having a gene-rich mitochondrial genome, the largest known outside the jakobids.[3]

Diphylleia rotans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Diphylleia

Massart 1920 non Michaux 1803
Species:
D. rotans
Binomial name
Diphylleia rotans
J.Massart 1920
Synonyms
  • Aulacomonas submarina Skuja 1939[1]

References

  1. Brugerolle, G.; Bricheux, G.; Philippe, H.; Coffe, G. (2002). "Collodictyon triciliatum and Diphylleia rotans (= Aulacomonas submarina) Form a New Family of Flagellates (Collodictyonidae) with Tubular Mitochondrial Cristae that is Phylogenetically Distant from other Flagellate Groups". Protist. 153: 59–70. doi:10.1078/1434-4610-00083. PMID 12022276.
  2. "SPECIES Diphylleia rotans". UniProt. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  3. Janouškovec J, Tikhonenkov DV, Burki F, Howe AT, Rohwer FL, Mylnikov AP, Keeling PJ. "A New Lineage of Eukaryotes Illuminates Early Mitochondrial Genome Reduction", Current Biology 2017, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.051
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