0439399 - BC 2015 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Votýpka, Jan - Kostygov, A.Y. - Kraeva, N. - Grybchuk-Ieremenko, A. - Tesařová, Martina - Grybchuk, D. - Lukeš, Julius - Yurchenko, Vyacheslav
Kentomonas gen. n., a New Genus of Endosymbiont-containing Trypanosomatids of Strigomonadinae subfam. n.
Protist. Roč. 165, č. 6 (2014), s. 825-838. ISSN 1434-4610. E-ISSN 1618-0941
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EE2.3.30.0032
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Kentomonas * Trypanosomatidae * bacterial endosymbionts * phylogeny
Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics
Impact factor: 3.045, year: 2014

Compared to their relatives, the diversity of endosymbiont-containing Trypanosomatidae remains under-investigated, with only two new species described in the past 25 years, bringing the total to six. The possible reasons for such a poor representation of this group are either their overall scarcity or susceptibility of their symbionts to antibiotics that are traditionally used for cultivation of flagellates. In this work we describe the isolation, cultivation, as well as morphological and molecular characterization of a novel endosymbiont-harboring trypanosomatid species, Kentomonas sorsogonicus sp. n. The newly erected genus Kentomonas gen. n. shares many common features with the genera Angomonas and Strigomonas, such as the presence of an extensive system of peripheral mitochondrial branches distorting the corset of subpellicular microtubules, large and loosely packed kinetoplast, and a rudimentary paraflagellar rod. Here we also propose to unite all endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatids into the new subfamily Strigomonadinae subfam. n.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0242686