Platyproteum
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Genus of single-celled organisms
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The Platyproteum are a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. Species in this genus infect marine invertebrates.
Taxonomy
[edit ]This genus was described in 2009 by Sonja Reuckert and Brian Leander.[2]
There is one species in this genus - Platyproteum vivax. This species was moved from the genus Selenidium .
It appears to be related to Filipodium phascolosomae .
Description
[edit ]This parasite is tape like.
Life cycle
[edit ]The parasite infects the gastrointestinal tract and is presumably transmitted by the orofaecal route but the details of this mechanism are presently unknown.
References
[edit ]- ^ Cavalier-Smith, Thomas (2014). "Gregarine site-heterogeneous 18S rDNA trees, revision of gregarine higher classification, and the evolutionary diversification of Sporozoa". European Journal of Protistology. 50 (5): 472–495. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.201407002. PMID 25238406.
- ^ Rueckert, S.; Leander, B. S. (2009). "Molecular Phylogeny and Surface Morphology of Marine Archigregarines (Apicomplexa),Selenidiumspp.,Filipodium phascolosomaen. Sp., and Platyproteumn. G. And comb. From North-Eastern Pacific Peanut Worms (Sipuncula)". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 56 (5): 428–39. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00422.x. PMID 19737195.
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