1. Two New Species of Zoothamnium (Ciliophora, Peritrichia) from Korea, with New Observations of Z. parahentscheli Sun et al., 2009.
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Ji D, Kim JH, Shazib SU, Sun P, Li L, and Shin MK
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- Animals, Ciliophora classification, DNA, Protozoan genetics, Estuaries, Genes, rRNA, Molecular Sequence Data, Oligohymenophorea cytology, Oligohymenophorea genetics, Republic of Korea, Seawater parasitology, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Oligohymenophorea classification, Oligohymenophorea isolation & purification, Phylogeny
- Abstract
Three peritrichous ciliates, Zoothamnium arcuatum n. sp., Z. grossi n. sp., and Z. parahentscheli Sun et al., 2009, were collected from an estuary of the Taehwagang River, Korea. All these species were investigated based on live observations and silver staining, and their small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene was also sequenced. Zoothamnium arcuatum can be identified by a goblet-shaped colony, double-layered peristomial lip, and abstomally shortened row 3 of infundibular polykinety 3 (P3). Zoothamnium grossi is morphologically characterized by an alternately branched stalk with the lowest secondary stalk diverging from the main part of colony, asymmetrically bell-shaped zooids, and three short, parallel ciliary rows in P3. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the three Zoothamnium species described in this paper clustered with other members of the family Zoothamniidae, as expected., (© 2015 The Author(s) Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology © 2015 International Society of Protistologists.)
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- 2015
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