Opalinea
| Opalinea | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Protoopalina pingi (Opalinidae) |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Opalinea | ||||||||||||
| Wenyon , 1926 |
The Opalinea are a group of unicellular organisms from the stramenopile group .
features
The representatives are unicellular eukaryotes with many flagella . The flagella arise from a morphogenetic center in the front part, called falx, and form longitudinal rows. Between the rows of flagella lie longitudinal ribs of the pellicle , which are supported by microtubule ligaments. A cell contains two to many nuclei of the same type .
The Opalinea have a complex life cycle in which the sex processes are triggered by hormones of the host and which are related to the life cycle of the host. The species live as endobionts in amphibians and some fish.
Systematics
The Opalinea are one of the groups of stramenopiles and within them the Opalinata . The following genera are counted among them:
literature
- Sina M. Adl, Alastair GB Simpson, Mark A. Farmer, Robert A. Andersen, O. Roger Anderson, John A. Barta, Samual S. Bowser, Guy Bragerolle, Robert A. Fensome, Suzanne Fredericq, Timothy Y. James, Sergei Karpov, Paul Kugrens, John Krug, Christopher E. Lane, Louise A. Lewis, Jean Lodge, Denis H. Lynn, David G. Mann, Richard M. McCourt, Leonel Mendoza, Øjvind Moestrup, Sharon E. Mozley-Standridge, Thomas A. Nerad, Carol A. Shearer, Alexey V. Smirnov, Frederick W. Spiegel, Max FJR Taylor: The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52 (5), 2005; Pp. 399-451. doi : 10.1111 / j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x .