Telonema is a genus of single-celled organisms.

Telonema
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Phylum: Telonemia
Class: Telonemea
Order: Telonemida
Family: Telonemidae
Genus: Telonema
Griessmann, 1913
Type species
Telonema subtile
Griessmann, 1913
Species
  • T. antarcticum Thomsen 2005
  • T. subtile Greissmann 1913

Some sources group Telonema within the cryptomonads-haptophytes assemblage.[1] It is sometimes assigned to a unique phylum, Telonemia.[2] Although Telonema is within the Eukaryota Domain, it does not have any close relations to other organisms within that domain .[3] However, it was once thought Telonema was closely related to photosynthetic cryptomonads, or stramenopiles and centrohelids, but there was not enough data to prove this.[4] After a study of 127 genes across 72 species, they found that Telonema subtilis could be related to alveolate and rhizaria.[4]

Species edit

Two species are recognized by AlgaeBase as of 2013, Telonema subtile and T. antarcticum.[5] The latter was described in 2005.[6]

Other sources call the former Telonema subtilis.[6][7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Eukaryotes". Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  2. ^ Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Eikrem W, Klaveness D; et al. (July 2006). "Telonemia, a new protist phylum with affinity to chromist lineages". Proc. Biol. Sci. 273 (1595): 1833–42. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3515. PMC 1634789. PMID 16790418.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Yabuki, Eikrem, Takishita, J. Patterson, Akinori, Wenche, Kiyotaka, David (July 2013). "Fine Structure of Telonema subtilis Griessmann, 1913: A Flagellate with a Unique Cytoskeletal Structure Among Eukaryotes". Protist. 164 (4): 556–569. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2013.04.004. PMID 23796965.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b Burki, F., Inagaki, Y., Bråte, J., Archibald, J. M., Keeling, P. J., Cavalier-Smith, T., … Shalchian-Tabrizi, K. (2009). Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal that two enigmatic protist lineages, telonemia and centroheliozoa, are related to photosynthetic chromalveolates. Genome biology and evolution, 1, 231–238. doi:10.1093/gbe/evp022 (July 2009). "Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal That Two Enigmatic Protist Lineages, Telonemia and Centroheliozoa, Are Related to Photosynthetic Chromalveolates". Genome Biology and Evolution. 1: 231–238. doi:10.1093/gbe/evp022. PMC 2817417. PMID 20333193.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ M. D. Guiry in Guiry, M. D. & G. M. 2013. Telonema Griessmann, 1913. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 9 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b Klaveness, D.; et al. (2005). "Telonema antarcticum sp. nov., a common marine phagotrophic flagellate". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (6): 2595–2604. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63652-0. PMID 16280533.
  7. ^ Okamoto, N.; et al. (2009). "Molecular phylogeny and description of the novel katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and establishment of the Hacrobia taxon nov". PLOS ONE. 4 (9): e7080. Bibcode:2009PLoSO...4.7080O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007080. PMC 2741603. PMID 19759916.