Proleptomonas

<i>Proleptomonas</i>

Proleptomonas

Genus of soil protists

Proleptomonas is a genus of coprophilic protists, containing the single species Proleptomonas faecicola. It belongs to the phylum Cercozoa, although it was previously considered the only free-living kinetoplastid.[1][2] It is the only member of family Proleptomonadidae.[3]

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References

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    Mylnikov AP, Karpov SA (2004). "Review of diversity and taxonomy of cercomonads". Protistology. 3 (4): 201–17.
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    Vickerman K, Vickerman D, Hoef-Emden K, De Jonckheere J (2002). "The Soil Flagellate Proleptomonas faecicola: Cell Organisation and Phylogeny Suggest that the only Described Free-Living Trypanosomatid is not a Kinetoplastid but has Cercomonad Affinities". Protist. 153 (1): 9–24. doi:10.1078/1434-4610-00079.
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    Howe AT, Bass D, Vickerman K, Chao EE, Cavalier-Smith T (2009). "Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Astounding Genetic Diversity of Glissomonadida ord. nov., The Dominant Gliding Zooflagellates in Soil (Protozoa: Cercozoa)". Protist. 160 (2): 159–189. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2008.11.007. ISSN 1434-4610.


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