Diphylleia rotans

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Diphylleia rotans
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: CRuMs
Clade: GRiDi
Class: Diphyllatea
Order: Diphylleida
Family: Collodictyonidae
Genus: Diphylleia
Massart 1920 non Michaux 1803
Species:
D. rotans
Binomial name
Diphylleia rotans
J.Massart 1920
Synonyms
  • Aulacomonas submarinaSkuja 1939 [1]

Diphylleia rotans is a eukaryotic microorganism. [2] It is notable for having a gene-rich mitochondrial genome, the largest known outside the jakobids. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Brugerolle, G.; Bricheux, G.; Philippe, H.; Coffe, G. (2002). "Collodictyon triciliatum and Diphylleia rotans (= Aulacomonas submarina) Form a New Family of Flagellates (Collodictyonidae) with Tubular Mitochondrial Cristae that is Phylogenetically Distant from other Flagellate Groups". Protist . 153: 59–70. doi:10.1078/1434-4610-00083. PMID   12022276.
  2. ↑ "SPECIES Diphylleia rotans". UniProt . Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Janouškovec J, Tikhonenkov DV, Burki F, Howe AT, Rohwer FL, Mylnikov AP, Keeling PJ. "A New Lineage of Eukaryotes Illuminates Early Mitochondrial Genome Reduction", Current Biology 2017, doi : 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.051
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