Archamoebae
Entamoeba histolytica trophozoite
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Clade: Evosea
Subphylum: Conosa
Infraphylum: Archamoebae
Cavalier-Smith 1998
Class: Archamoebea
Cavalier-Smith 1993, sensu Cavalier-Smith 2004
Orders and families
Synonyms
  • Karyoblastea Margulis & Schwartz 1982
  • Peloflagellatea Goodkov & Seravin 1991
  • Caryoblastea
  • Entamoebea Cavalier-Smith 1991
  • Rhizoflagellata Saville Kent 1880
  • Mastigamoebomonada Starobogatov & Seravin 1980

The Archamoebae are a group of protists originally thought to have evolved before the acquisition of mitochondria by eukaryotes.[1] They include genera that are internal parasites or commensals of animals (Entamoeba and Endolimax). A few species are human pathogens, causing diseases such as amoebic dysentery. The other genera of archamoebae live in freshwater habitats and are unusual among amoebae in possessing flagella. Most have a single nucleus and flagellum, but the giant amoeba Pelomyxa has many of each.

Description

Archamoebae are a diverse group of amoebae. Many have flagella for motility, while others do not. They grow in the absence of oxygen, though some can tolerate small amounts. Most described species of Archamoebae either lack mitochondria or are described to have reduced mitosomes.[2]

Habitat

They thrive and live in soil, freshwater, and marine habitats.

History

The group Archamoebae was proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1998 as part of the Archezoa, a newly-proposed group to include eukaryotes that had diverged before acquisition of mitochondria and other common eukaryotic cell features.[3][4] Early molecular trees based on rRNA supported this position, placing several Archamoebae genera as separate groups that diverged from other eukaryotes very early on, suggesting that the absence of mitochondria was a primitive condition.[4] However, soon thereafter genetic remnants of mitochondria were found in various Archamoebae, suggesting that these organisms had diverged after the evolution of mitochondria, but had lost their mitochondria over time, and are more closely related to various amoebae and slime molds.[1]

Phylogeny

The following cladogram summarizes the known relationships between the different families of Archamoebae.[2]

Archamoebae

Taxonomy

Infraphylum Archamoebae Cavalier-Smith 1993 stat. nov. 1998[2][5][6][7][8]

Archamoebae incertae sedis

References

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  2. ^ a b c Ptáčková, Eliška; Kostygov, Alexei Yu; Chistyakova, Lyudmila V; Falteisek, Lukáš; Frolov, Alexander O; Patterson, David J; Walker, Giselle; Cepicka, Ivan (2013). "Evolution of Archamoebae: Morphological and Molecular Evidence for Pelobionts Including Rhizomastix, Entamoeba, Iodamoeba, and Endolimax". Protist. 164 (3): 380–410. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2012.11.005. PMID 23312407.
  3. ^ Cavalier-Smith T (August 1998). "A revised six-kingdom system of life". Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 73 (3): 203–66. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1998.tb00030.x. PMID 9809012. S2CID 6557779.
  4. ^ a b Keeling PJ (1998). "A kingdom's progress: Archezoa and the origin of eukaryotes" (PDF). BioEssays. 20: 87–95. doi:10.1002/(sici)1521-1878(199801)20:1<87::aid-bies12>3.0.co;2-4. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  5. ^ Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE, Lewis R (June 2016). "187-gene phylogeny of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa reveals a new class (Cutosea) of deep-branching, ultrastructurally unique, enveloped marine Lobosa and clarifies amoeba evolution". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 275–296. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.023. PMID 27001604.
  6. ^ Silar P (2016). "Protistes Eucaryotes: Origine, Evolution et Biologie des Microbes Eucaryotes" (PDF). HAL archives-ouvertes. pp. 1–462. ISBN 978-2-9555841-0-1.
  7. ^ Kang S, Tice AK, Spiegel FW, Silberman JD, Pánek T, Cepicka I, et al. (September 2017). "Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34 (9): 2258–2270. doi:10.1093/molbev/msx162. PMC 5850466. PMID 28505375.
  8. ^ Pánek T, Zadrobílková E, Walker G, Brown MW, Gentekaki E, Hroudová M, et al. (May 2016). "First multigene analysis of Archamoebae (Amoebozoa: Conosa) robustly reveals its phylogeny and shows that Entamoebidae represents a deep lineage of the group". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 98: 41–51. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.01.011. PMID 26826602.


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