Andalucia (genus)

Andalucia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Class: Jakobea
Order: Jakobida
Family: Andaluciidae
Cavalier-Smith 2013
Genus: Andalucia
Lara et al. 2006
Species:
A. godoyi
Binomial name
Andalucia godoyi
Lara et al. 2006

Andalucia is a genus of jakobids, currently containing the sole species A. godoyi.[1] It has a worldwide distribution.[2]

Classification

The morphology of Andalucia broadly resembles that of other jakobids. Molecular data has not always been conclusive, but recent phylogenomic analyses indicate that Andalucia is a sister group to the other jakobids, or, in other words, more closely related to them than to the Heterolobosea or Euglenozoa (the other two groups in the Discoba).[3] The α-tubulin gene of Andalucia more closely resembles that of opisthokonts and diplomonads than its closer relatives, the apparent result of horizontal gene transfer.[4]

As of 2015, the soil heterotroph Andalucia godoyi is the only described species in the genus. The species Andalucia incarcerata, living in sulfide-rich marine intertidal sediments,[4] was transferred to the genus Stygiella in 2015.

Analysis of DNA sequences from the environment suggests at least two additional species that have not been isolated or formally described.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lara, Enrique; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2006), "Andalucia (n. Gen.)-the Deepest Branch Within Jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), Based on Morphological and Molecular Study of a New Flagellate from Soil", The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 53 (2): 112–20, doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00081.x, PMID 16579813, S2CID 19092265
  2. ^ Lara, Enrique; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Simpson, Alastair G. B. (2006). "Andalucia (n. gen.)—the Deepest Branch Within Jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), Based on Morphological and Molecular Study of a New Flagellate from Soil". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 53 (2): 112–120. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00081.x. ISSN 1550-7408.
  3. ^ Hampl V, Hug L, Leigh JW, et al. (March 2009), "Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 106 (10): 3859–64, Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.3859H, doi:10.1073/pnas.0807880106, PMC 2656170, PMID 19237557
  4. ^ a b c Simpson, Alastair G.B.; Perley, Thomas A.; Lara, Enrique (2008), "Lateral transfer of the gene for a widely used marker, α-tubulin, indicated by a multi-protein study of the phylogenetic position of Andalucia (Excavata)" (PDF), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47 (1): 366–77, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.035, PMID 18226931


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