Protostelium

Protostelium
Protostelium mycophaga sporocarps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Amorphea
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Variosea
Order: Protosteliida
Olive & Stoianovitch 1966, emend. Shadwick & Spiegel in Adl et al. 2012
Family: Protosteliidae
Olive & Stoianovitch 1966
Genus: Protostelium
Olive & Stoianovitch 1960 emend. Spiegel et al. 2017
Type species
Protostelium mycophaga
Olive & Stoianovitch 1960
Synonyms
Planoprotostelium
Olive & Stoianovitch 1971

Protostelium is a genus of protosteloid amoebozoans, i.e., amoebae capable of forming simple fruiting bodies composed of a stalk and a ball of spores. It contains numerous species, including P. aurantium, which was initially classified in a different genus Planoprotostelium. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that Planoprotostelium branches from within the genus Protostelium, making them synonyms.

The genus is placed in the family Protosteliidae within the monotypic order Protosteliida, which is part of a larger group of amoebozoans known as Variosea.

Classification

Many species from the genus Protostelium have been transferred over time to other protosteloid genera. The following species remain:

References

  1. 1 2 Adl, Sina M.; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Bass, David; Bowser, Samuel S.; Brown, Matthew W.; Burki, Fabien; Dunthorn, Micah; Hampl, Vladimir; Heiss, Aaron; Hoppenrath, Mona; Lara, Enrique; le Gall, Line; Lynn, Denis H.; McManus, Hilary; Mitchell, Edward A. D.; Mozley-Stanridge, Sharon E.; Parfrey, Laura W.; Pawlowski, Jan; Rueckert, Sonja; Shadwick, Laura; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Spiegel, Frederick W. (28 September 2012). "The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 59 (2): 429–514. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x. PMC 3483872. PMID 23020233.
  2. ↑ Olive, Lindsay S.; Stoianovitch, Carmen (1 February 1966). "Schizoplasmodium, a mycetozoan genus intermediate between Cavostelium and Protostelium; a new order of Mycetozoa". The Journal of Protozoology. 13 (1): 164–171. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1966.tb01887.x. PMID 5330308.
  3. ↑ Olive, Lindsay S.; Stoianovitch, Carmen (1960). "Two new members of the Acrasiales". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 87 (1): 1–20. doi:10.2307/2483057. JSTOR 2483057.
  4. 1 2 3 Shadwick, John D. L.; Silberman, Jeffery D.; Spiegel, Frederick W. (16 October 2017). "Variation in the SSUrDNA of the Genus Protostelium Leads to a New Phylogenetic Understanding of the Genus and of the Species Concept for Protostelium mycophaga (Protosteliida, Amoebozoa)". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 65 (3): 331–344. doi:10.1111/jeu.12476. PMID 29044743.
  5. ↑ Olive, Lindsay S.; Stoianovitch, Carmen (1971). "Planoprotostelium, a new genus of protostelids". Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 87 (3): 115–119. JSTOR 24334643.
  6. ↑ Olive, Lindsay S. (1975). The Mycetozoans. Academic Press. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-526250-7.X5001-7. ISBN 978-0-12-526250-7.
  7. ↑ Adl, Sina M.; Bass, David; Lane, Christopher E.; Lukeš, Julius; Schoch, Conrad L.; Smirnov, Alexey; Agatha, Sabine; Berney, Cedric; Brown, Matthew W.; Burki, Fabien; Cárdenas, Paco; Čepička, Ivan; Chistyakova, Lyudmila; Del Campo, Javier; Dunthorn, Micah; Edvardsen, Bente; Eglit, Yana; Guillou, Laure; Hampl, Vladimír; Heiss, Aaron A.; Hoppenrath, Mona; James, Timothy Y.; Karnkowska, Anna; Karpov, Sergey; Kim, Eunsoo; Kolisko, Martin; Kudryavtsev, Alexander; Lahr, Daniel J.G.; Lara, Enrique; Le Gall, Line (26 September 2018). "Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 66 (1): 4–119. doi:10.1111/JEU.12691. hdl:20.500.12327/534. PMC 6492006. PMID 30257078.