Calkinsia

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Calkinsia
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Scientific classification
Domain:
(unranked):
Division:
Class:
Postgaardea [1]
Order:
Postgaardida
Family:
Calkinsiidae

Cavalier-Smith 2016
Genus:
Calkinsia

Lackey 1960 non Nieuwland 1916
Species
  • C. aureaLackey 1960

Calkinsia is a monotypic genus of excavates comprising the single species Calkinsia aurea. [2] It lives in low-oxygen seafloor environments. [1] [3] It is not classified in any of the three well-known groups of the Euglenozoa (Kinetoplastida, Euglenida or Diplonemida), but is placed in its own group, the Symbiontida (along with some DNA sequences which were found in marine environments but not identified with known organisms). [1] [4] [5] Some authors have classified Calkinsia alongside Postgaardi , but Postgaardi has not been studied well enough to test this hypothesis. [1]

The genus name of Calkinsia is in honour of Gary Nathan Calkins (1869 – 1943), who was an American protozoologist and a professor at Columbia University. He wrote several landmark textbooks on the biology of the protozoa. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Yubuki, N; Edgcomb, Vp; Bernhard, Jm; Leander, Bs (Jan 2009). "Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Calkinsia aureus: cellular identity of a novel clade of deep-sea euglenozoans with epibiotic bacteria" (Free full text). BMC Microbiology. 9: 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-16 . PMC   2656514 . PMID   19173734.
  2. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Calkinsia". AlgaeBase . World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  3. Amend, Jan P.; Edwards, Katrina J.; Lyons, Timothy D. (2004). Sulfur biogeochemistry: past and present. Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America. ISBN   978-0-8137-2379-2.
  4. Yubuki, Naoji; Leander, Brian S. (18 July 2018). "Diversity and Evolutionary History of the Symbiontida (Euglenozoa)". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6 (100). doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00100 .
  5. Kostygov, Alexei Y.; Karnkowska, Anna; Votýpka, Jan; Tashyreva, Daria; Maciszewski, Kacper; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav; Lukeš, Julius (10 March 2021). "Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses". Open Biology. 11 (3: 200407): 200407. doi:10.1098/rsob.200407. ISSN   2046-2441. PMC   8061765 . PMID   33715388.
  6. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID   246307410 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.

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