Solenicola

Solenicola
Scientific classification
(unranked):	SAR
(unranked):	Halvaria
Superphylum:	Heterokonta
Phylum:	Bigyra
Class:	Nanomonadea
Order:	Uniciliatida
Family:	Solenicolidae Cavalier-Smith 2013
Genus:	Solenicola J. Pavillard 1916
Species:	S. setigera
Binomial name
Solenicola setigera J. Pavillard 1916

Solenicola setigera is a species of marine stramenopile, and the only species classified within the genus Solenicola. ^[1]

The species ranges between 4–7 μm in diameter and has a complex feeding strategy. Its ecological role within the marine planktonic food chain is generally as a grazer, feeding on photoautotrophic diatoms. It is a parasite of the species Leptocylindrus mediterraneus . S. setigera will grow on the frustule, the protective shell made of silica, of L. mediterraneus alongside the cyanobacteria Synechococcus , which it may also eat. S. setigera combines herbivorous grazing, parasitism, and predation into its survival strategy. ^[2]

In 2013, the genus was placed in the family Solenicolidae. ^[3]

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Solenicola J.Pavillard, 1916". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
2. Worden, Alexandra Z.; Follows, Michael J.; Giovannoni, Stephen J.; Wilken, Susanne; Zimmerman, Amy E.; Keeling, Patrick J. (13 February 2015). "Environmental science. Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes". Science. 347 (6223): 8. doi: 10.1126/science.1257594 . ISSN   1095-9203. PMID   25678667.
3. Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Scoble, Josephine Margaret (August 2013). "Phylogeny of Heterokonta: Incisomonas marina, a uniciliate gliding opalozoan related to Solenicola (Nanomonadea), and evidence that Actinophryida evolved from raphidophytes". European Journal of Protistology. 49 (3): 328–353. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2012.09.002. PMID   23219323.