Wallaceina is a genus of parasitic flagellate protist belonging to the family Trypanosomatidae.[1][2] This generic name is a replacement name for Proteomonas Podlipaev, Frolov et Kolesnikov, 1990 because the latter Proteomonas was already attributed to a cryptomonad.[1] Wallaceina is a taxonomic patronym honoring the protistologist Franklin G. Wallace, a pioneer in the modern taxonomy of trypanosomatids.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Euglenozoa |
| Class: | Kinetoplastea |
| Order: | Trypanosomatida |
| Family: | Trypanosomatidae |
| Genus: | Wallaceina Bulat, Mokrousov and Podlipaev 1999[1] |
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Wallaceina is a monoxenous parasite of insects. Other one-host trypanosomatids from hemipteran and dipteran insects have been traditionally placed in genera Blastocrithidia, Crithidia, Leptomonas, Herpetomonas, and Rhynchoidomonas.[3][4] Wallaceina is characterized by endomastigote morphological forms, whereas epimastigotes and opisthomastigotes are features of the genera Blastocrithidia and Herpetomonas, respectively.[4]
Comparison and phylogenetic analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA and glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphatedehydrogenase sequences of trypanosomatid taxa indicate that the genus Wallaceina is polyphyletic. It is therefore suggested to reassign Wallaceina species either to Crithidia brevicula (for Wallaceina brevicula, W. inconstans, W. vicina, and W. podlipaevi) or to the newly proposed genus Wallacemonas (for Wallaceina collosoma, W. rigida, and W. raviniae).[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c Bulat, Sergei A.; Mokrousov, Igor V.; Podlipaev, Sergei A. (1999-10-15). "Classification of trypanosomatids from insects and plants by the UP-PCR (Universally Primed PCR) technique and cross dot blot hybridization of PCR products". European Journal of Protistology. 35 (3): 319–326. doi:10.1016/S0932-4739(99)80010-8. ISSN 0932-4739.
- ^ a b Podlipaev, S.A.; Frolov, A.O.; Kolesnikov, A.A. (1990). "Proteomonas inconstans n. gen. n. sp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), a parasite of the bug Calocoris sexguttatus (Hemiptera, Miridae)" (PDF). Parasitologija (Russia). 24: 339–345.
- ^ Merzlyak, Ekaterina; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav; Kolesnikov, Alexander A.; Alexandrov, Kirill; Podlipaev, Sergei A.; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2001-03-01). "Diversity and Phylogeny of Insect Trypanosomatids Based on Small Subunit rRNA Genes: Polyphyly of Leptomonas and Blastocrithidia". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 48 (2): 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2001.tb00298.x. ISSN 1066-5234. PMID 12095103. S2CID 13880469.
- ^ a b Yurchenko, Vyacheslav Y.; Lukeš, Julius; Tesařová, Martina; Jirků, Milan; Maslov, Dmitri A. (2008-01-01). "Morphological Discordance of the New Trypanosomatid Species Phylogenetically Associated with the Genus Crithidia". Protist. 159 (1): 99–114. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2007.07.003. PMID 17931968.
- ^ Kostygov, Alexei Yu.; Grybchuk-Ieremenko, Anastasiia; Malysheva, Marina N.; Frolov, Alexander O.; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav (2014-09-01). "Molecular revision of the genus Wallaceina". Protist. 165 (5): 594–604. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2014.07.001. ISSN 1434-4610. PMID 25113831.