True molecular phylogenetic position of the cockroach gut commensal iLophomonas blattarum/i (Lophomonadida, Parabasalia)

0580502 - BC 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Nguyen l, L. - Taerum, S.J.J. - Jasso-Selles, D.E.E. - Slamovits, C.H. - Silberman, Jeffrey Donald - Gile, G.H.H.
True molecular phylogenetic position of the cockroach gut commensal iLophomonas blattarum/i (Lophomonadida, Parabasalia).
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. Roč. 70, JUN (2023), č. článku e12988. ISSN 1066-5234. E-ISSN 1550-7408
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : iq-tree * protozoa * striata * tool * dyspnea * empyema * flagellate * hypermastigote * lophomoniasis * pleural trichomonosis * symbiosis * Tetratrichomonas * trichomonad
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 2.2, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.12988

Lophomonas blattarum is a facultative commensal gut dweller of common pest cockroaches. Its cells are roughly spherical in shape with an apical tuft of similar to 50 flagella. Controversially, it has been implicated in human respiratory infections based on light microscopic observations of similarly shaped cells in sputum or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. Here, we have sequenced the 18S rRNA gene of L. blattarum and its sole congener, Lophomonas striata, isolated from cockroaches. Both species branch in a fully supported clade with Trichonymphida, consistent with a previous study of L. striata, but not consistent with sequences from human samples attributed to L. blattarum.
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